... Well, OK, that is an interesting statement. Is it jsut theory then? I don't get it - It seems like ME has actual plans to deliver a keyboard, so he is not...
5750
suzmccarth
Sep 1, 2005 11:25 pm
... and the ... average ... is ... more get ... express what ... releases? ... We are just discussing options, Barry. But this is likely not a market driven...
5749
suzmccarth
Sep 1, 2005 11:06 pm
... <everson@e...> wrote: the Vai user who wants to go to ... out ... No problem. Tracking the visual image is how it is done. It's how most of us do it. You...
5748
i18n@...
i18n_com
Sep 1, 2005 11:00 pm
... Won't the market release another keyboard if the users can express what might work better?? Why not plan for iterative or competitive releases? Why does...
5747
Richard Wordingham
richardwordi...
Sep 1, 2005 10:17 pm
... Have you any idea how wrong that is? About the only thing that makes that anywhere near true is Firefox's propensity to lose bookmarks when the computer...
5746
i18n@...
i18n_com
Sep 1, 2005 9:51 pm
... Yeah, that is probably a mostly fair summary for the printed materials...but read on.... ... No, a reading of the ORA web site explains their mission and...
5745
Michael Everson
evertype
Sep 1, 2005 9:25 pm
... Like Liberia? Suzanne has already noted that in Liberia, knowledge of Arabic is pretty much related to the Qur'an, which makes it unlikely that Vais will...
5744
Andrew Dunbar
hippietrail
Sep 1, 2005 8:55 pm
... Actually, Arabic keyboards are no more expensive at all. Perhaps in a country where there is a low demand and they need to be imported specially. However,...
5743
Michael Everson
evertype
Sep 1, 2005 8:26 pm
... It certainly is. ... Yes, and multilingualism is high in Africa, and has always been. ... Learning the values of 26 letters isn't learning a language, but...
5742
Jonathon Blake
pseudo_daoist
Sep 1, 2005 8:12 pm
... OUP and ORA have different focus points: * OUP:: Intellectually challenging back list material; * ORA: Bleeding edge/cutting edge computer technology ... ...
5741
Jonathon Blake
pseudo_daoist
Sep 1, 2005 7:53 pm
... No more than any other publisher is. Most of the published authors I know, have had issues relating to getting paid all the royalties that they are due....
5740
Andrew Dunbar
hippietrail
Sep 1, 2005 7:52 pm
... Well it's pretty widely accepted that learning languages is special. They are much more easily learned by children than by adults. What's to say that...
5739
suzmccarth
Sep 1, 2005 4:29 pm
... someone ... It is like doing division on a multiplication table chart. You locate the dividend (symbol) in the middle of the chart, through a laborious row...
5738
Anton Sherwood
brontopithecus
Sep 1, 2005 4:08 pm
Early on, before hierarchical directories were considered, MSDOS (or was it it in CP/M already?) adopted the VMS style of modifying commands with slashes; e.g....
5737
Seshat
seshattrisme...
Sep 1, 2005 4:07 pm
... Dear Qalamites, I feel that, recently, the language and overtones used in this mailing list don't meet the minimal requirements that we all would expect in...
5736
suzmccarth
Sep 1, 2005 3:58 pm
... There are two different issues here which have been confused. First, most of us, including Marco, have agreed that segmenting the syllable is an acquired...
5735
Peter T. Daniels
sweetpeteny
Sep 1, 2005 3:20 pm
... Yes. Your immense obtuseness apparently makes you unable to understand the problem. ... Yet you keep calling him "stupid." ... What use is a syllabary...
5734
Peter T. Daniels
sweetpeteny
Sep 1, 2005 3:08 pm
... I know for a fact that one of them, John Victor Singer, is not "a Vai," and not a "user of the Vai script." ... You're a damn good bullshit artist. The...
5733
Michael Everson
evertype
Sep 1, 2005 2:32 pm
... Yes, and we all met together in New York to work on Vai. ... These people took the time and trouble to work with us on encoding Vai. They are Vais. They...
5732
Michael Everson
evertype
Sep 1, 2005 2:29 pm
... All that obtuseness must get in the way of your seeing more correctly, then. You've done all you can not to read and understand the intent of anything I've...
5731
Peter T. Daniels
sweetpeteny
Sep 1, 2005 1:38 pm
... That looks like a tacit admission that none of them actually _is_ a user of Vai literacy in daily or ceremonial life. -- Peter T. Daniels...
5730
Peter T. Daniels
sweetpeteny
Sep 1, 2005 1:22 pm
... Thanks for providing them. ... I know John Singler, of course. He's an American Africanist, professor of linguistics and former department chair at NYU. As...
5729
Peter T. Daniels
sweetpeteny
Sep 1, 2005 1:06 pm
... I'm beginning to think you really are stupid. ... How many times do we have to tell you, it has nothing to do with "stupid." It has to do with some years...
5728
Michael Everson
evertype
Sep 1, 2005 1:03 pm
... One may deduce, given the quality of the proposal, that they are experts on Vai who approved the character set, its names, and its glyphs. -- Michael...
5727
Richard Wordingham
richardwordi...
Sep 1, 2005 12:45 pm
... refused to read. ... get out ... course), ... people ... Vai. I presume Michael is referring to the the following answers in the proposal: 2a. Has contact...
5726
Ph.D.
utegrepublic
Sep 1, 2005 9:42 am
... This is way off-topic, and this will be my only reply. I don't think CP/M directories were nestable. This was twenty-five years ago when very few...
5725
Michael Everson
evertype
Sep 1, 2005 9:18 am
... Note that what I said was, "Yes, Vai, obviously, can use a 47-key keyboard, because I can type Vai with one." ... You couldn't be more patronizing if you...
5724
i18n@...
i18n_com
Sep 1, 2005 8:18 am
... I didn't say anything like that. What I said (OK, that's what I get for discussing business matters on this list I guess) is that a combination such as...
5723
i18n@...
i18n_com
Sep 1, 2005 7:20 am
... Yes it is memorable. Especially int he sw internationalization business, where that particular character has been the bane of many an existence: the...
5722
i18n@...
i18n_com
Sep 1, 2005 7:00 am
... Travel books? That seems unlikely unless they were covering geek things to do at Comdex and the like!! I'd be curious to see an ORA travel book - I would...
