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Re: caselike gender system

From:Tim May <butsuri@...>
Date:Thursday, December 19, 2002, 18:28
Nokta Kanto writes:
 >
 > I also spent a few hours drawing some nice borders to prettify the
 > tables. I used the W3C's (standards committee) HTML 4.0
 > specification as a HTML guide.  You don't see any of it in Netscape
 > or Internet Explorer. It looks damn fine in Konqueror, which I used
 > to test the formatting. Nobody uses Konqueror.  Holy frickin'
 > dammit.
 >
I do.  That frame thingy around the characters looks very nice.  The
glosses don't line up with the heading "meaning" on the characters
page, though.

Also, in your introduction you say written Chinese is a "pure example
of an ideographic language" which just isn't true - there's a large
phonetic component.  See e.g. http://www.zompist.com/yingzi/yingzi.htm