From: keth@...
Message: 732
Date: 2001-02-11
>In a message dated 2/11/01 4:47:17 AM Pacific Standard Time, keth@...Did my message really look like that at your end?
>writes:
>> r¬ Ä¢a. (1)
>>
>> llum mÄìnnum skal meÄ¢ lÄìgum r¬ Ä¢a. (2)
>> In form (1) the non-ascii chars are Hex(E1) and Hex(F0), whichWhat did you think of lesson 1?
>> represent the middle two letters in "r°a" (='to govern' and
>> related meanings). Also the last letter in "me" is represented
>> by Hex(F0) (= same as 3rd of r°a). However, in (1) the first
>> letter of "ñllum" is represented by the ascii-char Hex(51) =
>>
>I've kept quiet on all this until now because honestly, I hadn't finished
>with last yr's project to start working more than superficially with the
>course.
>However, now that starting tomorrow I will be putting my full energies to
>the course I feel I have the right to speak up.
>I'm a beginning language student. This is my first REAL attempt at another
>language other than my native language. I'm also 40. Some of the discussions
>lately
>have made me discouraged before I really start. For the last couple of yrs
>I've been reading the poems of the Codex Regius in parallel with a good (IMO)
>English translation and felt pretty good about myself about what was picking
>up of vocabulary and grammar. Not so any more...
>Troth,
>PTD
><BR> llum mÄìnnum skal meÄ¢ lÄìgum r¬ Ä¢a. (2)I hope we can solve the problems, or I'll have to revert to pure ascii.