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 for

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

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
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 letters which

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

Re: Www as an internet riddle

2003-11-17 Thread Kenneth Whistler
«That's good for symbolizing e-mail», I said, «but that joint supports no POP3/SMTP access, only webbrowsing. «You should go for a www instead...» «Well, I want it as one character only. Any ideas, dummy?» This dummy then produced U+02AC to the startled friend, and hurried in search a

Re: [OT] Www as an internet riddle

2003-11-17 Thread Philippe Verdy
From: Kenneth Whistler [EMAIL PROTECTED] That's good for symbolizing e-mail, I said, but that joint supports no POP3/SMTP access, only webbrowsing. You should go for a www instead... Well, I want it as one character only. Any ideas, dummy? This dummy then produced U+02AC to the startled

Www as an internet riddle

2003-11-15 Thread Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin
Some days ago a friend was designing a for an advertisement campaign for a web saloon and I saw her toying around with U+0064. «That's good for symbolizing e-mail», I said, «but that joint supports no POP3/SMTP access, only webbrowsing. «You should go for a www instead...» «Well, I want it as one