Re: Boreanesian in the Web (was: Why Triggers?)

En réponse à Roger Mills <romilly@...>:

>
> Christophe has given me much the same advice, and he is correct. (Though
> it
> is taking my fossilized brain more than an hour to absorb "enough"
> HTML.
> Tables-- aargh).
Strangely enough, I never had problems making tables in HTML. It's just a
matter to know the parentheses tags and to know how many columns you want at
most (you can always fuse two columns together, but AFAIK not cut one in two).
But making the same tables in Word is a mess! (one little wrong movement and my
table is hopelessly messed up! I just have to do it again. Talk about user-
friendly! :( )

>
> BTW, although I don't think I've seen any Boreanesian in posts lately
> if
> ever, I'm under the impression it's East Asiatic-- and the name at
> least
> hints at Austronesian influences.  How then does it come by such an
> apparently complicated phonology?   ^_^
>
IIRC Boreanesian is an isolate, isn't it? It just happens to have a trigger
system like Tagalog and other Philippines languages, but it's coincidental (or
rather, it's because of the taste of the author :)) ).

Christophe.

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