Michael Everson wrote:

>
> At 10:20 -0400 2004-07-12, Peter T. Daniels wrote:
> >Michael Everson wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm not suing anyone, Marco. I'm trying to make sense of what has
> > > become a rather acrimonious debate, which I didn't start, and to try
> > > to determine whether Peter Daniel's accusations about the Unicode
> >
> >Who's?
>
> Funny. :-) Sorry for the typo.
>
> > > editors "distorting" his definitions is correct.
> > >
> >Their deviation from the definitions of the words as they were presented
> >to the scholarly public in 1988 [talks in Princeton, Chicago, and
> >Milwaukee], 1990, 1992, and 1996.
>
> ... which definitions we are to discern from the ether by means of
> mental powers?

Hunh?

I note, incidentally, that you didn't simply Quote what I posted, but
silently inserted hyphens where the move from FrameMaker to e-mail
resulted in irregular spacing.

> > > abjad - a type of writing system that denotes only consonants
> >
> > > abugida - a type of writing system whose basic characters denote
> >consonants followed by a particular vowel, and in which diacritics
> >denote the other vowels
> >
> > > alphabet - a type of writing system that denotes consonants and vowels
> >
> >I cannot provide the Unicode definitions, because Acrobat Reader refuses
> >to allow any other program to be visible on the screen at the same time,
> >so I can't even open to the page and copy the text.
>
> You could use your intelligence and your fingers to type the
> definitions in, and then to inform us as to what specific deviations
> you are concerned about.

Dammit Michael, they're YOUR definitions; you presumably have them on
paper in front of you. Type them, between the above paragraphs, and see
whether you can spot the differences all by yourself.
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...