I can't comment, I was never sent the photo/image. I have no
idea what you are talking about.
jm
---- Original message ----
>Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 14:26:05 +0700
>From: "Eisel Mazard" <Parajanaka@...>
>Subject: Re: [palistudy] Burmese mss ?
>To: palistudy@yahoogroups.com
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>Jim,
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>Yes, it resembles Burmese precisely because it is Lao.
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>Many of the Lao-Dhamma glyphs are "functionally identical" to
Burmese,
>and others are closely derived from Mon antecedents
--borrowings from
>Khmer are largely stylistic rather than functional (e.g., "hooks"
>added to vowel markers).
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>As McDaniel would point out (I assume he is too bored with
the subject
>to do so) there is no easy way to pinpoint the origin (from
the script
>alone) in a wide geographical range from Chiang Mai (Northern
>Thailand) to Luang Prabang (Northern Laos) --however, this is
a moot
>point for the block of wood in question, as the glyphs seem to me
>entirely modern (i.e., I believe I even know the textbook
that the
>scribe is using as a model for the (telling) glyph "n").
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>The portion of text that I looked at was either largely or
wholly in Pali.
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>No, I don't have time to transliterate it _gratis_ (my fee is
$350 /
>hour); nobody has given me any reason to believe this block
of wood is
>of any historical interest or practical utility, so it's
pretty low on
>my list of priority documents to transliterate (i.e.,
compared to a
>Kacc MS from Savannakhet).
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>E.M.
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Dr. Justin McDaniel
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