From: Peter T. Daniels
Message: 5626
Date: 2005-08-31
>As a matter of fact, it _is_ rocket science. People who have not learned
> At 17:55 +0000 2005-08-30, suzmccarth wrote:
>
> >Anyway it all breaks down to whether someone can use a roman
> >orthography to input a syllabic writing system without first
> >consciously learning alphabetic literacy. Porbably some can and
> >some can't. What do you think?
>
> "Some can't" is nonsense, except for dyslexics. Human beings can
> learn all sorts of things. It isn't rocket science to teach people
> that you press the
> The Ethiopic "standard" keyboard is "alphabetic". Deadkeys where theI don't know what "the Ethiopic 'standard' keyboard" may be, but the
> first key is a consonant followed by a vowel.
>
> So much for the unfairness of alphabetic input for syllabic scripts.