Re: NATLANG/Learning : Sanskrit

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe" <joe@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 10:46 AM
Subject: Re: NATLANG/Learning : Sanskrit


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jean-François Colson" <bn130627@...>
> To: <CONLANG@...>
> Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 9:26 AM
> Subject: Re: NATLANG/Learning : Sanskrit
>
>
> > And here is the Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary on CD-Rom -
> Only
> > $7.95 -
> >
>
http://www.matchless-gifts.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=25&products_id
> > =65&ad=sangoogle
> >
> > Does someone know how I can write in Sanskrit under Windows 98 with all
> the
> > (historic or modern) ligatures?
>
> letter+virama+letter, usually.  For instance,(with ' as an acute) |as'va|
> <अश्व>[@CP@]'horse'.  I suggest you use Arial Unicode to view that.  It
> often doesn't work with other fonts.  The only way I manage to type it is
to
> type in all the unicode into an HTML document, then cut&paste into
wherever.

Well, that seems fine with Outlook Express
(http://users.belgacom.net/bn130627/skrt1.gif), but when I copy and paste it
to Word 2000 I get it wrong: http://users.belgacom.net/bn130627/skrt2.gif.
Any suggestions?

And can I choose between the modern and the ancient ligatures?

--
Jean-François Colson
jfcolson@belgacom.net


>
> > --
> > Jean-François Colson
> > jfcolson@belgacom.net
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "J Y S Czhang" <czhang23@...>
> > To: <CONLANG@...>
> > Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2003 2:09 AM
> > Subject: NATLANG/Learning : Sanskrit
> >
> >
> > > In a message dated 2003:08:08 04:20:48 AM, Indiadivine@indiadivine.org
> > writes:
> > >
> > > >Learn Sanskrit for Beginners: Simple and clear lessons for learning
> > > >sanskrit, beginning from the very basics of writing and
pronunciation,
> > > >up to complex grammar and comprehension. The complete CD for learning
> > > >sanskrit, for just $7.95.
> > > >
> > > >http://www.matchless-gifts.com/learnsanskrit.htm
> > >
> > > ---
> > > Hanuman Zhang, MangaLanger
> > >
> > >      Language[s] change[s]: vowels shift, phonologies crash-&-burn,
> > grammars
> > > leak, morpho-syntactics implode, lexico-semantics mutate, lexicons
> > explode,
> > > orthographies reform, typographies blip-&-beep, slang flashes,
> stylistics
> > > warp... linguistic (R)evolutions mark each-&-every quantum leap...
> > >
> > > "Some Languages Are Crushed to Powder but Rise Again as New Ones" -
> > > title of a chapter on pidgins and creoles, John McWhorter,
> > > _The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language_
> > >
> > > = ! gw3rraa leg0set kaakaa! ! riis3rvaa, saaIlvaa, riikuu,
sk0paa-g0mii
> > aen
> > > riizijkl0! =
> > > (Fight Linguistic Waste! Save, Salvage, Recover, Scavenge and
Recycle!)
> > >
> >
>

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