Re: why Aramaic now lumpers and splitters Samaritan

2003-12-26 Thread Michael Everson
At 08:43 -0800 2003-12-25, Elaine Keown wrote: In addition, I was unable to find complete information on Samaritan--I couldn't find any running text with vowels that was large enough to scan for a proposal here in Texas. So anything I would send you now would not be enough to write a proposal.

Re: why Aramaic now lumpers and splitters Samaritan

2003-12-25 Thread Elaine Keown
Elaine Keown Dear Michael: I can send Samaritan references after I finish the Hebrew proposal font corrections--I finally sent John Hudson two sets of minor changes yesterday, and I have several days' work on the others. John Hudson has been waiting on me almost two months, so I want to

Re: why Aramaic now lumpers and splitters

2003-12-25 Thread jameskass
. Quoting from FER-DE-LANCE by Rex Stout © 1934: "... Not as big as the Barstows', the house was brand-new, wood with panels and a high steep slate roof, one of the styles that I lumped all together and called Queen William." Although that unification might seem horrific to an architect, it sui

Re: why Aramaic now lumpers and splitters

2003-12-24 Thread Christopher John Fynn
> Samaritan Bibles have fascinating marks that indicate > the emotion or dramatic interpretation to use in > reading each verse.pretty nifty! Sounds like these marks are akin to Vedic accents (yet to be encoded) in Devanagri which serve a similar purpose. - Chris

Re: why Aramaic now lumpers and splitters

2003-12-24 Thread Michael Everson
At 14:08 -0800 2003-12-24, Elaine Keown wrote: > There is zero chance that Phoenician will be considered to be a glyph variant of Hebrew. Many, many Semitists would be truly astonished to read this sentence. They will need to get over it. Many, many other people will want Phoenician encoded as

Re: why Aramaic now lumpers and splitters

2003-12-24 Thread Elaine Keown
Elaine Keown in Texas Hi, > There is zero chance that Phoenician will be > considered to be a glyph variant of Hebrew. Many, many Semitists would be truly astonished to read this sentence. > >The font for the Samaritan marks is still in rough > > draft due to what I did in

Re: why Aramaic now lumpers and splitters

2003-12-24 Thread Curtis Clark
on 2003-12-24 12:29 Elaine Keown wrote: It appears to me that script experts may resemble experts in dialects/languages: there are lumpers and splitters Following up on my post about wariness to unify being correct in first principles: My day job uses my training as a plant taxonomist, a

Re: why Aramaic now lumpers and splitters

2003-12-24 Thread Michael Everson
At 12:29 -0800 2003-12-24, Elaine Keown wrote: It appears to me that script experts may resemble experts in dialects/languages: there are lumpers and splitters I'm a lumper, but I am a thinking lumperI will be thinking about Phoenician retrieval in early 2004 There is zero chan

Re: why Aramaic now lumpers and splitters

2003-12-24 Thread Elaine Keown
Elaine Keown still in Texas Dear Michael Everson: > Or not. It depends what kinds of criteria we select, > or don't, and it's good to know that you aren't > prioritizing that either. It appears to me that script experts may resemble experts in dialects/languages: there are lump