Re: How about a typology for input methods

Peter T. Daniels wrote:

>Mark E. Shoulson wrote:
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>>Michael Everson wrote:
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>>>At 13:07 -0400 2004-07-14, Peter T. Daniels wrote:
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>>>>Texts other than Tanakh are not pointed (unless they're children's
>>>>editions).
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>>>Poetry is regularly pointed in Hebrew.
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>>In a *very* preliminary sampling (only a few so far), I have yet to find
>>a page on Project Ben-Yehuda which is listed as poetry and is *not*
>>pointed. It is probably safe to say they have hundreds of such pages.
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>Maybe Project Ben-Yehuda is intended for learners.
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Maybe. But not very likely: there's a lot of text there, and it is very
explicitly modeled on Project Gutenberg, which is very decidedly not for
learners. Moreover, what, all those poets were ALL writing for babies?

Maybe, maybe, maybe, just perhaps possibly there is the barest hint of
of possibility that you, even you, might be the teeniest bit wrong.

~mark