On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 19:03:21 -0500, Peter T. Daniels
<grammatim@...> wrote:

> You can't omit the dots from the consonants; they're as much a part of
> each letter as is the dot on i.

By gosh, I think I almost realized that. It's not at all hard to see the
difference that dots make in a chart of Arabic and latin transliterations.

> The one bit not part of the consonantal string that's virtually
> unomissible is hamza.

Ah; now to learn what a hamza is. Have heard of it... Aha. Got out my copy
of WWS, looked in the index, no luck. Thomas Bauer's article looked
familiar; I must have read it some time back.

Peter, thank you.

--
Nicholas Bodley /*|*\ Waltham, Mass.
Once again, deeply impressed by the scholarship and
typography (among other aspects) of WWS.