Re: Delimiters <-- Re: IIT (Madras) point of view

Andrew Dunbar wrote:

>
> --- "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@...>
> wrote:
> > Peter Constable wrote:
> > >
> > > > From: Peter T. Daniels
> > [mailto:grammatim@...]
> > >
> > > > Mac fonts have guillemets where Windows fonts
> > > > have edh/thorn.
> > >
> > > No. The Mac Roman codepage has guillemets where
> > > the Windows Western codepage has edh/thorn.
> >
> > I neither know nor need to know how my car or
> > television works; nor do I know or need to know how
> > my computer works. It is a TOOL, not an end in
> > itself.
>
> You neither know nor believe you need to know how
> email and mailing lists work yet you insist on using
> them wrongly. Do you at least know how to do a three-
> point-turn or a hill start.

I send my emails and they arrive. How am I "using them wrongly"?

> We're not asking you to solder together a computer or
> program one. Just stop misleading and confusing people
> with your ignorant gibberish confusing fonts with
> codepages.

I have never mentioned codepages.

> Are you as obstinate with other language-related tools
> such as dictionaries and libraries?

How is one "obstinate" with dictionaries and libraries?

> I cannot believe the hypocrisy what with all the
> pointless grief you give Suzanne McCarthy.

Look. I was _begged_ to join this list a few years ago, because it was
supposed to be about writing systems.

It turned out to be about computers.

Maybe I'll just go away.
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...