From: Peter T. Daniels
Message: 5729
Date: 2005-09-01
>I'm beginning to think you really are stupid.
> At 22:49 -0400 2005-08-31, Peter T. Daniels wrote:
>
> > > > > >Vai, obviously, can't use a 47-key keyboard.
> > > >>
> > > >> I can type all 340 characters in my Vai +
> >> >> extended punctuation set, on a 47-key keyboard,
> >> >> just fine.
>
> Note that what I said was, "Yes, Vai, obviously, can use a 47-key
> keyboard, because I can type Vai with one."
>
> > > >And you're going to "engrave" all 340 symbols on the keycaps?
> >>
> >> No, because the keycaps are already engraved with Latin. T + A = TA.
> >
> >WHY ARE YOU INCAPABLE OF UNDERSTANDING. The "Latin" approach to typing
> >Vai is NOT a good (let alone ideal) solution -- because it would require
> >an entire different level of education to get syllabically-writing
> >people to grasp the concept of segmentation.
>
> You couldn't be more patronizing if you tried, I am sure.
> Them poor little Vai natives, golly, when they sit down in front of aHow many times do we have to tell you, it has nothing to do with
> computer and have to learn about mice and clicking and popup menus --
> all of which will be in English (or less likely in Qur'anic Arabic --
> gosh, them poor little Vai natives will have to learn to TYPE Vai,
> and heck, if they're too stupid to learn how to string T + A together
> to form TA.
> But then you started out by saying "Why would anyone _want_ to writeDo they also want to have to learn to read and write English -- which is
> Vai with a computer?"
>
> You were wrong about that. Vai people do want to write Vai with a computer.
> And you are wrong about Vai people being incapable of learning how toStop lying. I did not say "incapable." I said that people who have not
> segment syllables. Their syllabary charts are arranged with
> consonants on one axis and vowels on another. In real books given to
> real children.
> >Is your local computer dealer going to provide these lessons along withDoes the local computer dealer not SELL THE COMPUTERS?
> >every unit sold?
>
> One expects Vai fonts and keyboard layouts to be free, downloadable software.
> > > >Especially if he's a First World technocrat telling a Third World personRelevance?
> > > >how to do that thing.
> > >
> > > Pish-posh. I am "telling" no one any such thing. And you've offered
> > > nothing constructive in this discussion.
> >
> >None is so blind as he who will not see.
>
> Q.E.D.
>
> >There may be quite a few "anyone else"s to do so. I personally have no
> >knowledge of the Vai language or its relatives, and its script.
>
> "Really, now you ask me," said Alice, very much confused, "I don't think--"
> "Then you shouldn't talk," said the Hatter.
> > > >Who _are_ your Vai contacts?Once again, I am not going to waste my time downloading a 1 Mb document
> >>
> >> They are named in the Vai proposal document which you have refused to read.
> >>
> >> >If they're not associated with the power elite, how did they get out
> >> >of the country?
> >>
> >> None of your damn business, I am sure.
> >
> >If you won't identify your consultants (not merely by name, of course),
> >there is no way to evaluate how legitimately they represent the people
> >you claim they represent.
>
> I have identified them. They are identified in
> http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n2948.pdf
>
> If you were to read that document, you might learn something about Vai.