Re: [langue-fr] L'anglais est-il une langue universelle ?

2000-12-31 Thread Michael Everson
Ar 07:48 -0800 2000-12-30, scríobh Patrick Andries: >> School curricula are quite crowded >> already. Every extra language you add is less time for math or >> history or science or the native language. And where do you find the >> teachers for all these extra languages? > >I would like to see any

Re: [langue-fr] L'anglais est-il une langue universelle ?

2000-12-31 Thread Darya Said-Akbari
Hello Alain, after your explanation I dont know what we should discuss now. Did you expect such a reaction from all the friends in this list? They all like to tell their experiences to each other. And once you read them you can find a lot of interesting stories. Stories that I have read in englis

Re: [langue-fr] L'anglais est-il une langue universelle ?

2000-12-31 Thread John H. Jenkins
At 10:53 AM -0800 12/30/00, Elaine Keown wrote: >The horror of dealing with many native English speakers is their >worship of English and their intolerance towards other languages. >Linguistic intolerance also affects American Protestants---there's a >weird obsession with the 1611 English Bibl

Re: [langue-fr] L'anglais est-il une langue universelle ?

2000-12-31 Thread John H. Jenkins
At 4:53 AM -0800 12/31/00, Michael Everson wrote: >Ar 07:48 -0800 2000-12-30, scríobh Patrick Andries: > > >> Trilingualism and more is I'm afraid just too >>> much to ask of most people who aren't full-time language >>> professionals or naturally gifted with languages. > >Actually, all human b

Re: [langue-fr] L'anglais est-il une langue universelle ?

2000-12-31 Thread Guy Schockaert
on 31/12/2000 18:12, John H. Jenkins at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > At 4:53 AM -0800 12/31/00, Michael Everson wrote: >> Ar 07:48 -0800 2000-12-30, scríobh Patrick Andries: >> Trilingualism and more is I'm afraid just too much to ask of most people who aren't full-time language pro

Re: [langue-fr] L'anglais est-il une langue universelle ?

2000-12-31 Thread Alain LaBonté 
À 05:40 2000-12-31 -0800, Darya Said-Akbari a écrit: Hello Alain, after your explanation I dont know what we should discuss now. Did you expect such a reaction from all the friends in this list? They all like to tell their experiences to each other. And once you read them you can find a lot of

New Unicode Website items

2000-12-31 Thread Mark Davis
We'd like to call people's attention to a few recent items on the Unicode site. UTF-8 Corrigendum - The Unicode Technical Committee has modified the definition of UTF-8 to forbid conformant implementations from interpreting non-shortest forms for BMP characters, and clarified some of the conform

Syriac questions (erratum ?)

2000-12-31 Thread Patrick Andries
Questions after a cursory reading of the Syriac section (8.3) in TUS 3.0. Page 200 : do we have to understand from fig. 8.5 that SAM is used to differentiate number in letters from alphabetic letters ? In this case, is this important usage mentioned anywhere ? Page 201 : usage of QUSHSHAYA and R