The Unicode approach to Sanskrit and all Indic is flawed. Indic should
not be letter-assembly systems.
Sanskrit vyaakaraNa (grammar) explains the phonemes as the atoms of the
speech. Each writing system then assigns a shape to the phonetically
precise phoneme.
The most technically and gramma
x errors and decadence introduced by past technologies.
RICHARD:
That sounds like a letter-assembly system.
MY RESPONSE:
Nothing assembled there, my friend.
On 4/24/2017 12:38 PM, Richard Wordingham via Unicode wrote:
On Mon, 24 Apr 2017 00:36:26 +0530
Naena Guru via Unicode wrote:
The Unico
above Sinhala words: http://smartfonts.net/ttf/aruna.ttf
-=- svasþi siððham! -=-
On 4/25/2017 2:07 AM, Richard Wordingham via Unicode wrote:
On Mon, 24 Apr 2017 20:53:12 +0530
Naena Guru via Unicode wrote:
Quote by Richard:
Unless this implies a spelling reform for many languages, I'd like to
Just about the name paluta:
In Sanskrit, the length of vowels are measured in maaþra (a cognate of
the word 'meter'). It is the spoken length of a short vowel. In Latin it
is termed mora. Usually, you have only single and double length vowels.
A paluþa length is like when you call out somebody
VE users of Indic to explain what apparently Europeans
or Americans are discussing here.
On 5/1/2017 10:47 AM, Philippe Verdy wrote:
2017-04-29 21:21 GMT+02:00 Naena Guru via Unicode <mailto:unicode@unicode.org>>:
Just about the name paluta:
In Sanskrit, the length of vowels ar
t; demi-god => god
has not much of a consequence in the West dominated culture of this day.
On 5/1/2017 8:55 PM, Richard Wordingham via Unicode wrote:
On Mon, 1 May 2017 19:49:27 +0530
Naena Guru via Unicode wrote:
The purpose of writing is to represent speech. It is not some secret
t
The 'certain' level of knowledge
above is now revealed. Language, dialect, creole, migration, intermixing
of different peoples, accent...; where do these stand? Find ye by the
foregoing what the fossil 'ye' actually was and what caused it to get
fossilized in this form.
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