Re: CHAT: feckly off-topic (was: THEORY: Storage Vs. Computation)

At 19:49 +0200 22.6.1999, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:

>Irish... Yes, now there's a language with a spelling that could have taught
>Tson-mi Thang-bo-ta (the inventor of the Tibetan script) a lesson!
He was Thon-mi Sam-Bho-ta (Sambho.ta being Sanskrit for "Tibetan" of course!)

In Thon-mi's day Irish spelling was much less un-phonetic, as was probably
Tibetan.  There are still dialects (La-dwags, Kham &c.) which are much
closer to the orthography than Hlasa is.

BTW: would you be interested in my tone-spelling transcription of Tibetan?

/BP (aka Ngag-dbang sByin-pa)

 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  B.Philip Jonsson  <bpj@...> <melroch@...>

        Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant!
                                            (Tacitus)