Hello How to classify stenography? At least the Stolze-Schrey system should be an alphabet as every consonant and every vowel has its own representation. But...
... Pitman and Gregg are Featural (in Sampson's sense). I suppose this one is similar. Remember: I REFUSE to be drawn into hairsplitting attempts to pigeonhole...
... It's not really, and neither are Gregg and Pitman similar to each other. I've done some research about stenography, only in the web, not much, but enough...
Sorry for the late uptake, but I couldn't resist taking a stab at it: Right side of bill: "anti yaa nab3 alHanaan allatii ja3alatnii 'uHibb addunyaa min...
Slight modification of the translation of the right-hand side: "... love the world because of her" It also just occurred to me that the word "kifaayah" on the...
* John Cowan ... I would guess that the order, like the character names, is ancestral and dates back to Northern Linear. As far as I know neither are recorded...
I was speaking with Vietnamese gentalman the other day. He was telling me about the history (in brief) of the Vietnamese witten language. He said that the...
... No. The best guess is that the symbols are listed in the order they happened to be thought up. There are some associative groupings of names (e.g. body...
... I always wondered whether the letter names could make up a sort of story, but it's really hard to imagine a story beginning with the words: "Ox House ...
Marco Cimarosti
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Sep 19, 2002 1:06 pm
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... The script was called Chu' Nôm, and it was a very free adaptation of the Chinese script. Some characters were used for their meaning and some others for...
Marco Cimarosti
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Sep 19, 2002 1:09 pm
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... Or as _Finnegans Wake_ has it: "as semper as oxhousehumper". -- We call nothing profound jcowan@... that is not wittily expressed. John...
Does anyone have access to Genesis Chapter 11 in the Croatian Glagolitic alphabet. I'm printing a little booklet via metal printing type, and I want to include...
... have a clue about the roots of ... I think it's Donald Knuth's "The Art of Computer Programming", Volume 3, Sorting and Searching; where I just read a very...
An abstract for a new book by Florian Coulmas is available on the Linguist List site: http://linguistlist.org/issues/13/13-2400.html - Peter ... Peter...
Hello everybody, ... Well, it's fisrt time I post on this very interesting ML. So, about ancient vietnamese, I can say, according to: _ Histoire de l'ecriture,...
David Bonnet
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Sep 22, 2002 5:26 pm
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... Very brief, and unreliable in places ... Unquestionably the best single-author volume on the topic (Jensen has more pictures, but Février has opinions,...
Greetings, I was just considering word boundaries and thought that a change of script should indicate the start of a new word (assume a space somehow ...
... (or ... I've definitely come across English words with both Korean and Hebrew endings in mixed script. I don't know how widespread it is and doubt any...
... In general, I don't think that a script switch is a valid clue of a word boundary. However, you should perhaps define what "scripts" and "words" are, for...
Marco Cimarosti
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Sep 24, 2002 8:57 am
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... In Kurdish, Q and W are Latin letters, while all else is Cyrillic. You may think Unicode is in error here (I do), but that's the way it currently is...
... That doesn't make sense; on the one hand, the Coptic letters are shaped differently from the Greek, and on the other, Coptic is a system où tout se tient,...
... Indeed, Michael Everson's demo page at http://www.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n2444.pdf shows that Coptic text is more readable in Cyrillic or Gothic than...
Orthographic words in phonetic transcriptions can mix Latin and Greek characters. In general, script change is not a valid indicator of word boundaries. -...
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