RE: [OT] "Www" as an internet riddle

2003-11-20 Thread Michael Everson
At 01:39 +0100 2003-11-21, Philippe Verdy wrote: But even if I had no lips, I would prefer using a percussive tongue and palatal sound or glottal stop, or even my fingers on my palm to approximate a /b/, at least for my language (French) which do not use them as distinctive consonnantal phonemes..

RE: [OT] "Www" as an internet riddle

2003-11-20 Thread Philippe Verdy
Michael Everson wrote: > > At 23:59 +0100 2003-11-20, Philippe Verdy wrote: > > >Kenneth means here: LATIN LETTER BIDENTAL PERCUSSIVE, with > SMALL LETTER U > >and SMALL LETTER U, where the diacritic letters would normaly > stack on top > >of each other, above the two stacked LATIN SMALL W let

Re: [OT] "Www" as an internet riddle

2003-11-20 Thread Michael Everson
At 23:59 +0100 2003-11-20, Philippe Verdy wrote: Kenneth means here: LATIN LETTER BIDENTAL PERCUSSIVE, with SMALL LETTER U and SMALL LETTER U, where the diacritic letters would normaly stack on top of each other, above the two stacked LATIN SMALL W letters which represent the IPA bidental sound.

Re: [OT] "Www" as an internet riddle

2003-11-20 Thread Philippe Verdy
Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin wrote: > But it is not an ISP (Internet Service Provider), just an internet café > (a place where you have terminals connected to the web where you can > surf for a fee and optionally drink coffee at the same time -- no sugar > to keep the keeboards unsticky...). They sh

Re: [OT] "Www" as an internet riddle

2003-11-20 Thread Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin
On 2003.11.17, 23:26, Philippe Verdy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> that joint supports no POP3/SMTP access, only webbrowsing. > > For such a crazy ISP, But it is not an ISP (Internet Service Provider), just an internet café (a place where you have terminals connected to the web where you can surf

Re: [OT] "Www" as an internet riddle

2003-11-17 Thread Philippe Verdy
From: "Kenneth Whistler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > ÂThat's good for symbolizing e-mailÂ, I said, Âbut that joint supports > > no POP3/SMTP access, only webbrowsing. ÂYou should go for a "www" > > instead... ÂWell, I want it as one character only. Any ideas, dummy? > > > > This dummy then produced U