--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@...>
wrote:

> "Featural syllabary" could be a portmanteau description of Korean.

Featural just makes me think of Jakobson and Halle, their attmept at
binary features, acoustic not articulatory, etc. The word feature,
for me is irretrievably connected to memorizing Ladefoged (not
binary however)for an exam.

So for me featural seems to relate to phonetics rather than
phonemics, or at least to be more like the IPA, not related to any
particular language, ie not langauge specific. That is my
association for 'featural'.

> Who considers him obscure??

Evidently they don't, I was wrong there.

> Hmm, where were you when I was going through that?

I had at that time figured out how to google into Unicode but I had
not figured out how to operate the table of contents, so I couldn't
read it in any connected way.

I should mention, since you once asked how long I had been using
usenet, whatever that is, that joining qalam was the first time I
had used the internet.

Suzanne