Nicholas Bodley wrote:

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> On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 19:52:41 -0500, i18n@... <i18n@...> wrote:
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> > Nicholas didn't say i18n is Tex Texin, he said *i18nguy* is Tex Texin.
>
> > Although he did insert an unexpected space,
>
> [Relative trivia]
> I was wondering about that, and didn't check; my goof. Of course, an
> e-mail name in the actual e-ddress* can't have an embedded space.
>
> *"e-ddress": Richard Lederer's term; I like its conciseness.
>
> > I have never encountered Nicholas except in this forum AFAIK, including
> > the time I spent living just a few towns over from Waltham MA.
>
> I'm more of a hermit than I let on! (^_^).
>
> For the record:
> Peter Daniels, not long ago, "got my goat" to no small degree recently, by
> saying he "didn't know ... and had no interest in learning..." (very
> approximate, partial quote) and the message I composed in response didn't
> go out. I decided to sleep on it, and was glad I did. It's not even in my
> message archive. I decided to "turn the other cheek", and try to be
> helpful, I hope sincerely.

Richard Sproat's review of WWS criticized the last chapter for not going
into how computers work. He had no answer for what value such a
discussion written in 1993 would have even by the time the book was
published in 1996.

There's enough for me to know about writing systems, that I have no
interest in knowing about computers as well.

Richard Sproat, BTW, is now involved in a campaign to claim that Indus
Valley script isn't a writing system at all.

> I liked what Barry said. Indeed, let's be peaceful, and try not to upset
> others.
>
> As Dave Garroway used to say when "signing off",
>
> Peace!

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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...