suzmccarth wrote:

>
> --- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@...>
> wrote:
> > suzmccarth wrote:
> > >
> > > Actually I saw this term recently on the ANTHRO-L listserv,
> > > (published by Computing and IT, Buffalo) and I don't know who
> said
> > > what from that page but this is the link. (Probably useless
> because
> > > it is too long.)
> > >
> > > http://listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9912&L=anthro-
> > > l&F=&S=&P=39057
> >
> > If a link is too long, you cut and paste.
> >
> > The URL takes you to a quote OF ME explaining why neosyllabary
> SHOULD
> > NOT be used. Yet you quote that back to me as an example of the
> use of
> > the word!!
> All I am saying is that you are, in fact, familiar with the word
> which I find out after, not before, you question my use of it. The
> fact that you abhor the word doesn't particularly interest me.
>
> I still have difficulties accepting logographic being defined as
> phonographic which ... or a syllabary which ....

"Logographic" is not "defined as" either of the above. A logographic
writing system is a writing system that encodes words (morphemes,
actually).

> What I am looking for is something that will predict or suggest a
> range of possible input methods.

Everyone, especially the computer guys, keeps telling you that script
typology has nothing whatsoever to do with input methods.

> Indeed it turned out that my
> thinking about Tamil was in the ballpark. The syllabic conjuncts in
> the display of the font in the new Uniscribe version, but not in the
> older version, was as I had hoped. The syllabic input method MS
> Tamil IME that I had imagined was in fact created as I had imagined
> in minute detail by Bhashaindia. This input method in a superficial
> way looks more like the input method for Chinese than any other
> input method for any language that I have seen yet. I am not sure
> that it will become accepted but my question is how did this come
> about - not my idea. I am an observer of this product and potential
> consumer. I amy be wrong but, somehow, other people are thinking
> about Tamil in the same way that I am and some of them are probably
> native speakers.
>
> Unfortunately I made some errors originally since Office 2000 did
> not support Unicode. In fact, forums are littered with others like
> me complaining tht Windows does not support unicode. When someone
> explained to me how to find my USP10.ddl files the issue was
> resolved.

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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...