Richard Wordingham wrote:

>
> --- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@...>
> wrote:
> > > Arabic provides the comparison you are looking for, as it allows
> > > partial dotting.
> >
> > Now, what do _you_ mean by "dotting"? Surely you can't omit some
> of the
> > dots that distinguish e.g. b from n from t? Do you mean vowel
> pointing?
>
> Sorry, yes, I do mean pointing. (Mind you, taken *literally*, dots
> and points are practically the same! No, I'm not planning to 're-
> dot' the walls of my house!)

That's _tuck_pointing. I always wonder whether they're pointing the
tucks or tucking the points. (Both constructions are possible in
English, but one is significantly rarer.)
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...