... http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=tilde ... And don't forget the last of the "big 4" online dictionaries, Oxford Word Exchange: ...
... Am I correct, then, in thinking that the word "utterance" implies that this definition of "writing system" requires the existence of a spoken (cf....
... Well, my Thai picker and the Tamil 'syllabic input' picker I generated work both from the internet and off-line. The reason for using HTML + javascript is...
... (This post is written in a Thai encoding, despite what the e-mail header may say.) ... anything ... Innocently, ... nice, ... Sounds like an Opera feature...
... I tried the Thai picker in IE, WinXP without any difficulties but my full use of it was to type 'spaghetti' and 'whisky' and google 'hotel', using Marco's...
... I bet you ten euros that Tamils working in production offices typesetting Tamil publications use keyboards. -- Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com...
... Thank you for your valuable information. I understand that the case you are indicating about juridical linguistics is a sample of the extent to which the...
... syllabic ... Your euros are safe Michael. Kuralsoft http://kstarsoft.com/ provides phonetic(qwerty-based transliteration) Tamil99, Old and New Typewriter...
... In the UK the Oxford English Dictionary is the biggest. (Perhaps the biggest English dictionary in the world with 500,000 words and 2.5 million ...
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... -- ... I asked my friend and co-worker Ranil, who used to own a printing press in Sri Lanka (until he had to flee as a political refugee), and he said: ...
... While I am a big fan of the OED, I don't believe it has no prescriptive content at all. For instance look at its entry for "philosophers' stone". All...
... Hunting and pecking would be suboptimal self-training. ... Why not train them? Why such a patronizing attitude? ... Yes. ... No. ... No. ... The teeming...
... Do Sign researchers refer to an act of signing as an utterance? If not, what's their equivalent? (They didn't bother to use Stokoe's "cheremic" in place of...
... Thanks for answering... ... Wow you are reading way too much into it. You routinely ask people to clarify their definitions. I just wanted to make sure...
... Good grief. "Abudiga" is a Ge`ez and Amharic word, and it only got applied to Indic faute de mieux, because Ethiopic and Indic are the same type. ... Sure....
... There are always lots of used copies of the Shaw Alphabet edition of Androcles available on bookfinder.com, so I'm not sure *I* would call it "rare"...
... Long before 6 September you were asked for your definition of "writing systems," yet you continue not to provide one. You certainly had enough time for...
... How not? Why do you say phonetic not phonemic? ... Hunh? The shapes of Hangul, Pitman, Visible Speech, and Gregg correspond to phonetic features. What's...
... As I keep on receiving complaints about your behavior, I had to put you in "moderated" mode, again, and recently I did't have much time to play the censor....
... Actually, I already did provide a definition, but you overlooked it, embedded in one of my messages. But then, you don't read what I write very carefully....
... And, taking in account what I've already said (i.e., that the swung dash, "tilde virgulilla", is in Spanish only a remainder of an ancient Latin...
How long have we had a consistent distinction between -s, -'s and -s' ? ... -- Anton Sherwood, http://www.ogre.nu/ "How'd ya like to climb this high *without*...
... I believe Tamil was the earliest Indic script to be typeset - mid 1500's (very early in any case.) This is one of the interesting things about Tamil, it's...
... today -- ... The Boodberg article was mentioned because Mark of Pinyin News wanted to write about Boodberg and he decided to republish the memorial to ...
... That's an interesting question (and it's on-topic). I do know that "philosophers stone" has been around longer than the possessive apostrophe though, no ...