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Hi there, Just want to tell you about a great free website. Over there you can make deaf or Sign Language(ASL) friends or pen pals from your area or from all...
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The Chinese People's Daily (April 18) reports that the government is making moves to protect Nushu, including the establishment of a museum. See: ...
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Jun 5, 2002
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* John Hudson ... That is very good news. It's somewhat annoying that the people writing the story haven't figured out that it is a script, not a language,...
Lars Marius Garshol
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Jun 5, 2002
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... This seems to be a common error in almost every news item I've seen about Nushu. This, rather better article, identifies Nushu as a 'special written ...
John Hudson
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Jun 5, 2002
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* Lars Marius Garshol ... * John Hudson ... That could indicate that the problem might be with a single source for all these news stories. On the other hand,...
Lars Marius Garshol
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Jun 5, 2002
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... I think they are simply poor word choices on the part of an author or translator not working in their native language. Take for instance the chinavoc.com...
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Jun 5, 2002
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Professional Association of Localization (PAL) Web Site URL Changed June 19, 2002--The Professional Association of Localization (PAL) announced that the URL...
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Jun 19, 2002
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hello everybody about me: as y'all can see, i have found this list. my interest in writing systems is of a double nature: i'm as interested in the phonology as...
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Jun 20, 2002
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... Hello. ... So, I'm not the only one who wastes his time with this kind of games. :-) ... Before you explain the system, could you just reveal the first few...
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Jun 20, 2002
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hi Marco Cimarosti wrote: [snip] ... this kind of games. :-) *And consequently me neither. Always good to know that. What languages are you adapting to? Me:...
Alf Gandson
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Jun 21, 2002
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... For a technical introduction, I transcribed phonetically a Latin word in most of the scripts used in the world. And I often write my pre-scholar baby's...
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Jun 21, 2002
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Hi all, A question about logographs and ideographs came up on another list, and I would like to ask your opinion. The "+" sign in the English language, is it a...
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Jun 22, 2002
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... Irrelevancies. ... No. "1 + 1 = 2" can be pronounced "One and one is two." ... No. -- Peter T. Daniels grammatim@......
Peter T. Daniels
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Jun 22, 2002
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Hello again, Is there a term that expresses the cognitive association between shape and sound? thanks, /Daniel...
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Jun 25, 2002
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... OK, I give up. I have divided the picture in little squares (correct?) and, perhaps, I have detected a punctuation sign (a dot in the middle of an empty...
Marco Cimarosti
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Jun 25, 2002
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... "Meaning"? "Sign"? "Signifier"? -- Peter T. Daniels grammatim@......
Peter T. Daniels
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Jun 25, 2002
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... "Featural"? But, warning, all attempts to define this term have failed, so far. _ Marco...
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Jun 25, 2002
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... correct ... right ... there is none ... Sorry, I shouldn't have written "consonant and vowel upon each other", but rather "into each other". Syllable-onset...
Alf Gandson
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Jun 25, 2002
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... You cheater! :-) ... You double cheater! :-) ... I though something like that, but then I got confused. One of my assumptions was that syllable-final "-r"...
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Jun 26, 2002
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Marco Cimarosti wrote: [snip] ... the lonely one used for punctuation) could be a sort of "virama", but I also assumed that it was an accent. * There’s no...
Alf Gandson
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Jun 28, 2002
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... Ahora entiendo, gracias. Ciao. Marco...
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... Er... Actually, I "ent'endo"... _ Marco...
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Jun 28, 2002
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hello Some sounds can be understood either as a single sound or as a combination of two sounds. Accordingly, there are writing systems which represent them by...
Alf Gandson
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Jun 28, 2002
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... The Latin script as used for latin has at least such a letter: <X> (= [ks]). The Greek alphabet as two more: <PS> and <Z> (= [ts]). ... A Devanagari...
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... couldn't have done any better (apart from that insignificant italianism!-) Cobertura especial de la Copa Mundial de la FIFA Corea-Japón 2002, sólo en...
Alf Gandson
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Jun 28, 2002
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... Greek <Z> is /zd/. (The Persian deity Ahuramazda can be spelled <ahuramaza> or <ahuramasda>.) -- Peter T. Daniels grammatim@......
Peter T. Daniels
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Jun 28, 2002
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The Unicode Standard (version 3.0, chapter 7) claims that Ogham and Runic were still in non-revivalist use to the 16th and 19th centuries respectively. Does...
John Cowan
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Jul 5, 2002
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... I do. -- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com...
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Jul 5, 2002
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... And would you be so kind to tell us where? (If the answer to this question is "I would", please proceed directly with the reference). _ Marco...
Marco Cimarosti
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Jul 5, 2002
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... Is there some way that messages from "qalam" could be identified in the header? When I saw the improbable collocation of lexical items in the header of the...
Peter T. Daniels
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