Wow, this is really deep stuff. I consider this sub-thread a prime candidate for a nice discussion in hackers-il
Now, could we please go back to discuss boring stuff, like killng X servers? Thanks On 20 May 2002, Alex Shnitman wrote: > On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 15:19, Moshe Zadka wrote: > > > Yes. But what both you and Uri are missing is: "Alphabets are supposed > > to serve us, not the other way around" > > You are right. My point is that diversity is part of humanity, and even > though in many cases it doesn't make sense from a practical point of > view, it still continues to exist, because we as people like it that > way: practicality is not our only criterion. And as much deficiencies as > you can find in the Hebrew language / alphabet, you cannot argue that it > does not work -- it's spoken by millions of people daily, and wonderful > books, poetry and plays have been written in it. Each language / > alphabet has its practical problems, yet they don't deny its right to > existance. Our culture, history and folklore is worth something, and > there's no reason why we should shed all that and start from scratch. > *Especially* not triggered by some minor temporary difficulties in > implementing the language on a computer. -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
