Re: Online Drill for Scripts (Hiragana, Katakana, Hangul, Bopomofo)

Tim May wrote:

>Very nice!  But why are the letters on the (grey) buttons grey?  It's
>slightly hard to read.  (I'm seeing this in both Konqueror and
>Firefox, so I don't _think_ it's local to me.)
>
>
Are you sure? I'm getting perfectly ordinary black text over here in Safari.

>I'd like to see Arabic and Tibetan, both of which are slightly
>trickier than what you've got so far, but probably manageable (as long
>as you didn't go beyond the standard stacks in Tibetan).  Something
>like Devanagari wouldn't work well with this model unless you
>basically gave up on the conjuncts, I think.
>
>
Hm. That depends; the conjuncts are, for the most part, systematically
derived from their components. There are like two in Devanagari that I
can think of that must be taught, and one letter takes a shape
dissimilar to its basic shape when conjoining.

>That would mean a _lot_ of buttons in some cases,
>particularly if you included conjuncts.)
>
>
I'd suggest spelling out the components.

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of Chinese characters. It expresses the kung fu of the void, as taught by P'an
Ku's axe.

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