[silk] [intro] Hello people of silklist!

2013-09-03 Thread Kingsley Jegan Joseph
I'm Kingsley Jegan Joseph, a denizen of many internet communities, from 4chan to imgur/reddit to fb/twitter. By profession, I make decisions, position, price market, write code, design and manage products for my 2 startups, TripThirsty.com (travel) and BiteMeCompany.com (cupcakes). I've worked in

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2013-09-03 Thread Vinayak Hegde
On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 6:22 PM, Kingsley Jegan Joseph k...@kingsley2.comwrote: हिंदी, picola di Italiano muy pocito Español, read Brahmi and some Tamil Welcome. Where did you learn Brahmi (or why did you choose it). Asking since it is a pretty unusual choice. - Kingsley PS: There is

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2013-09-03 Thread Kingsley Jegan Joseph
On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 6:37 PM, Vinayak Hegde vinay...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 6:22 PM, Kingsley Jegan Joseph k...@kingsley2.comwrote: हिंदी, picola di Italiano muy pocito Español, read Brahmi and some Tamil Welcome. Where did you learn Brahmi (or why did you choose it).

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2013-09-03 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On 03-Sep-2013, at 18:37, Vinayak Hegde vinay...@gmail.com wrote: PS: There is always a danger, when sending this intro email to a new group, akin to merging into a freeway, of swerving right into the middle of a 14-wheeler of a conversation with no context. Here's hoping that doesn't happen.

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2013-09-03 Thread Deepa Mohan
You seem like an Interesting Person, and that is what Udhay collects. Your only mistake seems to be to assume that 14-wheelers of conversations happen here. Pass along, pass along. Cheers, Deepa. On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 6:22 PM, Kingsley Jegan Joseph k...@kingsley2.comwrote: I'm Kingsley

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2013-09-03 Thread Kingsley Jegan Joseph
On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 7:00 PM, Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com wrote: You seem like an Interesting Person, and that is what Udhay collects. Your only mistake seems to be to assume that 14-wheelers of conversations happen here. Pass along, pass along. Cheers, Deepa. What?! I am

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2013-09-03 Thread Kingsley Jegan Joseph
On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 6:56 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.net wrote: On 03-Sep-2013, at 18:37, Vinayak Hegde vinay...@gmail.com wrote: PS: There is always a danger, when sending this intro email to a new group, akin to merging into a freeway, of swerving right into the middle of a

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2013-09-03 Thread gabin kattukaran
On 3 September 2013 19:11, Kingsley Jegan Joseph k...@kingsley2.com wrote: You should find quite a few familiar faces here like me and Jace. And me I think - half of india-gii and ilug-* is also here. Hi, We met IRL sometime last month and since I will be Bangalore quite often perhaps we

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2013-09-03 Thread Thaths
On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 6:24 AM, Kingsley Jegan Joseph k...@kingsley2.comwrote: On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 6:37 PM, Vinayak Hegde vinay...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 6:22 PM, Kingsley Jegan Joseph k...@kingsley2.com wrote: हिंदी, picola di Italiano muy pocito Español, read Brahmi

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2013-09-03 Thread Venkat Mangudi - Silk
Kingsley Welcome to silk. It's interesting that this thread has not yet drifted. But I can see it happening very soon. On Sep 3, 2013 7:25 PM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 6:24 AM, Kingsley Jegan Joseph k...@kingsley2.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 6:37 PM,

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2013-09-03 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 7:25 PM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote: Since you are interested in languages/scripts, you'll be interested in one of the projects I'm working on - developing a harmonious font family to cover all of the world's (encoded) languages. More details (including some fonts to

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2013-09-03 Thread Kingsley Jegan Joseph
Wow, that's really, really ambitious. I'd love to know what tactics you use to maintain stroke thicknesses for intricate scripts like Sinhala or vertical-consonant-stackers like Kannada/Telugu. Good luck! Kingsley Joseph On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 7:25 PM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep

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2013-09-03 Thread Thaths
On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 6:58 AM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay sankarshan.mukhopadh...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 7:25 PM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote: Since you are interested in languages/scripts, you'll be interested in one of the projects I'm working on - developing a

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2013-09-03 Thread Dibyo Haldar
On 3 September 2013 21:57, Venkat Mangudi - Silk s...@venkatmangudi.comwrote: Kingsley Welcome to silk. It's interesting that this thread has not yet drifted. But I can see it happening very soon. Welcome Kingsley. I see more meta-discussion about thread-drift than the actual

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2013-09-03 Thread Thaths
On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 6:59 AM, Kingsley Jegan Joseph k...@kingsley2.comwrote: Wow, that's really, really ambitious. I'd love to know what tactics you use to maintain stroke thicknesses for intricate scripts like Sinhala or vertical-consonant-stackers like Kannada/Telugu. Good luck! Sinhala

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2013-09-03 Thread Kingsley Jegan Joseph
Sinhala is one of the ones where we are having a tough time coming up with a design that users like (and is harmonious with other scripts). A vast majority of native Sinhala speakers seem to prefer variable stroke widths in Sinhala fonts and react poorly to proposals with uniform stroke width.

[silk] [intro] Hello people of silklist!

2013-09-03 Thread Shoba Narayan
From: Kingsley Jegan Joseph k...@kingsley2.com I have degrees in fashion design, sociology and information systems. I dabble in history, language (speak/read ?, ??, ?, ?? ?, picola di Italiano muy pocito Espa?ol, read Brahmi and some Tamil inscriptions), culture. I try to

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2013-09-03 Thread SS
On Tue, 2013-09-03 at 18:22 +0530, Kingsley Jegan Joseph wrote: ಕನ್ನಡ, तोडा सा हिंदी Welcome Two comments The first language seems to read Kannada but uses Telugu (or some other unfamiliar) script if I am not mistaken. It seems to read K-N-N-D which is like a transcription of the English

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2013-09-03 Thread Udhay Shankar N
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 9:33 AM, SS cybers...@gmail.com wrote: The first language seems to read Kannada but uses Telugu (or some other unfamiliar) script if I am not mistaken. It seems to read K-N-N-D which is like a transcription of the English spelling of kannada into the wrong font. Maybe

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2013-09-03 Thread SS
On Tue, 2013-09-03 at 18:22 +0530, Kingsley Jegan Joseph wrote: read Brahmi and some Tamil inscriptions If you read Brahmi and are interested in ancient scripts here is something that might interest you: 1. A man called Wim Borsboom has developed a hypothesis to say how modern Roman alphabet