Re: How about a typology for input methods

Peter T. Daniels wrote:

>John Cowan wrote:
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>>Peter T. Daniels scripsit:
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>>>The great bulk of written Hebrew doesn't use the points.
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>>Most Modern Hebrew (which is the bulk of Hebrew writing) uses at
>>least some points.
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>Depends what you mean by "most," but the occasional proper name or
>potentially ambiguous word is hardly "most."
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I think he meant "most Modern Hebrew texts use at least some points
somewhere in them." It depends how you want to look at quantities of
language. Viewed word-by-word, yes, very few words are pointed. Viewed
letter-by-letter, even fewer, proportionately. Viewed
sentence-by-sentence, proportionately more, and so forth. Viewed
document-by-document, pointing (in the sense of occasional pointing) is
very common.

~mark