At 10:13 PM 1/29/00 -0800, you wrote: [snip-a-bit] ... Do you remember the scene in "Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade", when he had to pick the holy grail...
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A.M.Callaway
acal@...
Feb 2, 2000 1:18 pm
... [snip] I actually have an IPA font on my system, but I'm not sure if it has a standard mapping (or even if there is one). I think there is provision for it...
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Philip Newton
philip.newton@...
Feb 2, 2000 1:25 pm
... It already is in Unicode 2.0, at positions U+0250 to U+02AF. If you have Windows NT, you can start the 'Character Map' application and see that in the...
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A.M.Callaway
acal@...
Feb 4, 2000 2:28 pm
... Oh, yes, so there is. What on Earth is Bopomofo? Sounds like a Robin Williams movie. :-) - .+'^'+. A.M.Callaway ----------------- acal@... - A N...
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Philip Newton
philip.newton@...
Feb 4, 2000 3:12 pm
... They're symbols used to write Chinese. As far as I know, they're used only on Taiwan and only for school children who are learning to read. Possibly ...
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Philip Newton
philip.newton@...
Feb 4, 2000 3:48 pm
"Bopomofo" is sort of like "ABC". The official name is "zhuyin fuhao". Here are some pages with information: http://www.aproposinc.com/pages/asiantrm.htm ...
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Daniel G. Szczurek
twojbrat@...
Feb 4, 2000 11:09 pm
Dear Philip, Great thanks for the help in finding the "zhuyin fuhao" on the net. Your help was invaluable to me. Even the webmaster didn't know where to...
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Daniel G. Szczurek
twojbrat@...
Feb 4, 2000 11:09 pm
I live in the Seattle area, where there are many Chinese speaking Americans. As books are imported from Taiwan here, and only rarely from The People Oppressive...
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Philip Newton
Philip.Newton@...
Feb 5, 2000 6:57 am
... The pages I found were a result of a search on "bopomofo" using Google ( http://www.google.com/ ). Glad they were of use to you! Cheers, Philip -- Philip...
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rossana
rossami@...
Feb 8, 2000 9:18 pm
Hi I'm a sicilian girl. I'm doing a dissertation about Shaw's Pygmalion. If someone could help me, I'm interested in every theme he deals with in his work....
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A.M.Callaway
acal@...
Feb 9, 2000 1:16 pm
... Hi, Amico. Do you have access to newsgroups? If so, subscribe to alt.language.english.spelling.reform and you'll see there are lots of people interested in...
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Daniel G. Szczurek
twojbrat@...
Feb 12, 2000 12:24 am
Dear friends, I've got a whole bunch of stuff transliterated into Shavian, but am still working on how to get Shavian Script into my e-mail, Outlook Express....
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Lionel Ghoti
lionel_ghoti@...
Feb 13, 2000 4:03 am
The easiest way to upload a file to the Shavian vault is to point your web browser at http://www.egroups.com/docvault/shavian/ then go into the "texts"...
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Hal Fulton
hal9000@...
Feb 23, 2000 6:05 pm
Has it really been twelve days since anyone posted on here? Let's get a topic going. Question for you all: What do you see as the possible NEGATIVE effects of...
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Paige Gabhart
pgabhart@...
Feb 24, 2000 5:15 pm
... First, what do you mean by "universal?" I assume you mean universal adoption by English speaking people. If that is the case, then one effect that could...
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Daniel G. Szczurek
twojbrat@...
Feb 24, 2000 8:51 pm
dC frendz , hCz a pOstiN : dust v snO (bF /rybxt /frYst) H wE a krO SUk dQn yn mI H dust v snO frum a hemlyk trI hAz givin mF hRt a cEnJ v mMd n...
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A.M.Callaway
acal@...
Feb 25, 2000 3:19 pm
Evenin' All... My latest attempt "End of Empire", a rather cynical look at the world, has just been uploaded to the Vault. A bit late, sorry, but better late...
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A.M.Callaway
acal@...
Feb 25, 2000 3:19 pm
... Something that I have thought about, but don't have the necessary knowledge, how would dyslexics handle Shavian? It is generally thought that dyslexics...
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Hugh Birkenhead
mixsynth@...
Feb 25, 2000 5:18 pm
To all ye Shavia, After exactly a month of intermittent but dedicated work, I am proud to present my transliteration: the British 'Highway Code' rulebook, in...
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Daniel G. Szczurek
twojbrat@...
Feb 26, 2000 5:39 am
Hugh, Thanks for your contribution. Actually, a good way for us to practice reading would be to read each other's transcriptions AND proofread them....
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Hugh Birkenhead (@ WGS)
hbirkenhead@...
Mar 2, 2000 6:51 pm
Due to a 'misunderstanding', I will not be able to use the Internet for a number of days, possibly weeks, so unfortunately I will not be able to receive from...
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Neil Stewart
nrstewart@...
Mar 11, 2000 7:13 pm
Greetings to all! I have sent my transliteration to the Vault. For those of you that like trivia questions and clues, the second line of the poem is: "In a...
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Ross DeMeyere
ross@...
Mar 14, 2000 2:36 pm
I received a msg (included) that some people on this group might have more time to play with than I do. Also, I am on a Macintosh and he set this program up...
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Simon Barne
simon_barne@...
Apr 9, 2000 4:09 am
If anyone has tried to email me since Christmas (unlikely, I know), I have been offline. My laptop is now mended and I have a new email address. Greetings to...
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YDerwydd@...
Apr 9, 2000 6:13 am
... Apa khabar? Sincere you live in Indonesia, I'm willing to bet that you people who have learned English as a second language. Someone once said that "local ...
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David Fox
djfox10@...
Apr 9, 2000 1:23 pm
... The strength, attraction and ... YES, YES and again YES! Nice to hear some sense in this group. [And anyone who thinks that Shavian can be adapted to any...
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A.M.Callaway
acal@...
Apr 9, 2000 2:22 pm
... Fanks, Guv. - .+'^'+. A.M.Callaway ------- andy.callaway@... - A N D Y Melbourne, Australia --------- acal@... - `+.,.+'...
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A.M.Callaway
acal@...
Apr 9, 2000 2:22 pm
... [snip-a-bit] ... I found something at http://www.io.com/~hmiller/Jarda/Lhoerr-uni.html - is that it? A.Callaway. Lost cause No. 38C5V48 rev. b - .+'^'+....
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Daniel G. Szczurek
twojbrat@...
Apr 9, 2000 7:12 pm
The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) already does this, and linguists have been using it since the early 1900's. Why do we need another such writing...
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Daniel G. Szczurek
twojbrat@...
Apr 9, 2000 7:19 pm
I am opposed to this. It is linguistically unsound to view all varieties of English as mutually comprehensible. English is also socially unacceptable to many...
