... I find it easier to rotate and then flip vertically than to reflect in a diagonal axis. This may simply be because it is easier to reflect about an...
... think ... symmetric. ... reflect in ... reflect ... Or flip sideways and then flip vertically. ... their ... reflections ... that ... I would say that they...
Well, the reform of English spelling is apparently a topic of discussion again. From http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060705/ap_on_re_us/simpl_wurdz (you may find...
According to the item given in the last Qalam posting, somebody else has noticed that the English spelling system and the English pronunciation system are two...
... And we'd soon be cut off from all past literature. Shakespeare would (and does) get reedited into modern spelling, but who else would? ... He was a UN...
... First, that's a little anglo-centric; English speakers are cut off from the vast majority of all past literature because it's not in English. With anything...
... What nonsense. The topic was English spelling reform. ... How out of touch are you? Have you never looked at the list of Penguin Classics? at what Project...
... No, because the Deseret Alphabet isn't a cypher for Latin. It's a completely different beast, intended to provide a phonetic spelling of English. (If...
Perhaps it's appropriate to mention that popular usage by somewhat-literate people who either don't read much, or don't perceive actual spellings, has a loose...
... Actually, I have looked at what Project Gutenberg has already digitized, having scanned or processed about a hundred books for Project Gutenberg. Project...
... The main difficulty was handling the archaic (King James vintage) English. Other than that, I was able to take advantage of existing text-to-speech...
... reform ... Non sequitur. ... But now of course we find uses for these complex spellings - few would misunderstand 'The sons raise meat' as 'The sun's rays...
... So you already know that there is a considerable library available of Early Modern materials presumably in original orthography. But because of the great...
... No, why would you convert the Book of Mormon from Latin to Deseret? ... Is there any hope that it's an accurate transcription? -- Peter T. Daniels...
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 04:57:24 -0400, Richard Wordingham ... I'm noticing that some significant number of people can't spell to/too correctly, at least...
... It was my contribution (such as it was) to the Salt Lake City's sesquicentennial. (A Deseret Book of Mormon was officially published by the LDS Church in...
Greets, I'm writing to ask advice on how to safely photocopy books when there would be some risk to the book (in particular the spine)? I did some searching...
I thought the entries for "abjad" and "abugida" were discussed last year, with people who could fix them. Yet they currently read as badly or worse than they...
I think the Staples copy-centers might have "edge-copiers." All their equipment is now Xerox. -- Peter T. Daniels grammatim@... ... From: á³áá¤á...
Maybe your local university library and/or internal copy service has such a device you can use? Or you could call the manufacturer and see if you can locate...
Trying to carry on a conversation at one-week intervals just doesn't work. Seshat? The one I got when I googled "unicode consortium" and glossary. (My point in...
... I assume this is http://www.unicode.org/glossary/ which is the Unicode 4.0 glossary. Unicode 5.0 glossary contains the following definitions. Abjad. A...
Quite good. Now, if you'll get it more hits than the obsolete version, it'll be the one that appears at the top of the google results! If you copy-pasted...
Yup, that link is the one I saw. While I was there I looked at "grapheme" since there was a link to it. For those who think "grapheme" is a useful term, why...
... Peter - Depending on which browser you are using, both shift-click and ctrl-click on the link will open it up in new windows and/or tabs without closing...
I remember some years ago being amazed when IBM managed to rendered their name dot-matrix style by aligning single atoms into position. Humans seem to have...
Hello. I have been searching for someone who would be able to write the word "Azawakh" for me, scan and email to me. This is the Sahelen hound of the Taureg...
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