i18n@... wrote:

>
> Peter T. Daniels wrote:
>
> > i18n@... wrote:
> > There is
> > > ample public record of it.
> >
> > You mean, I should google "Barry" or "i18n" and I'll learn of your
> > professional history?
>
> There are many ways to skin a cat.

That's a disgusting expression.

> > When you say something about writing systems, I'll know whether you have
> > worthwhile things to say about writing systems.
>
> You mean you judge everybody's worth in advance of what they say? That
> must make life on the internet where you don't know everyone seem pretty
> scary huh?

Well, I see you do have problems reading English. I said that *when*,
not before, you say something about writing systems, I'll know whether
it's worthwhile.

> Why don't you just go ahead and killfile me if I am so unworthy of your
> time?

Because I don't have killfile capacity.

> > When you want to talk about computers, go there. When you want to talk
> > about writing systems, come here. It doesn't seem that complicated.
>
> To you maybe - but to many others, the facts of the 20th century that
> computers and writing systems are intermingled now seems quite obvious.

We're not in the 20th century any more.

> Just as you seem to have a long term interest in the origin of parchment
> and find it worth discussing here, others have similar and related
> interests. And just as parchment is a tool to enable the use of writing
> systems, originating in a long ago era, so are computers a tool enabling
> the use of writing systems originating in a more recent era.
>
> Peter, no one here objects to topics such as the origin of parchment
> that interest you.
>
> What people object to is your continued insistence that computers and
> writing systems as they relate to each other are off-topic, and your
> flaming people for introducing such topics, when you introduce
> structurally equivalent topics yourself.

I did not introduce the topic of parchment.

I did not complain about the takeover of this list by computers until
after it had happened.

> If you don't like this list, you are welcome to leave at anytime. And if
> there are some people here you respect enough to take to a list only for
> the group of you and they, then go ahead and make a private and maybe
> even secret list. Then you can be the moderator and nothing will ever
> get discussed that you don't approve of!

I was begged to join this List. I didn't feel I needed another List to
come to me, but I was begged. It then turned out to mostly not be about
writing systems.

> In the meantime, since you are the only one who complains about this
> list, maybe you can consider finding other ways to manage your
> discomfort with it. I have suggested a few - perhaps your trusted
> colleagues can provide others.

Am I?

> Best,
>
> Barry <-- who figures that one day he and Peter will meet and become
> best friends and laugh about this endlessly :)

It won't happen if I don't know who or where you are.
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...