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Re: an announcement...

From:Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
Date:Thursday, September 23, 1999, 1:32
On Wed, 22 Sep 1999 10:43:58 -0400 John Cowan <cowan@...>
writes:
> > and a > > proposal for including a Hebrew glyph for the Tetragrammation > (proposal > > devised by none other than Mark Shoulson! where is he by the > way...)
> This proposal is going to wither on the vine, though, as the > Israelis > oppose it: it unifies away too much, and plain-text search is not > a serious option for Hebrew anyway; modern Hebrew doesn't even have > a standard orthography.... > -- > John Cowan cowan@ccil.org > I am a member of a civilization. --David Brin
I don't see a use for using a single glyph for the Tetragrammaton....it wouldn't be used that much at all anyway, on a webpage, and if someone wanted to they'd just type out the four letters....not much of a difference. From what i've seen, modern Hebrew actually does have guidelines laid down by the Aqademya ha3Ivrit for vowelless orthography - when to double vavs and yuds, what vowels can be represented by them and which can't, etc. I don't know if everyone goes by the rules, though. I sure don't all the time :) . -Stephen (Steg), who likes using _aleph_ for word-final /a/ in names. "inspiration is no substitute for vigilance; or, don't start singing loudly to yourself unless you KNOW noone's watching" ___________________________________________________________________ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj.