[B-Greek] Re: Change of prefered Language

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Mon Nov 22 19:55:54 EST 2004


At 9:48 AM +0900 11/23/04, Raymond Regalado wrote:
>On 2004.11.23, at 03:26  AM, Carl W. Conrad wrote:
>
>> Yes, the rough breathing is misplaced--all accenting on diphthongs should
>> be on the second vowel; there should be a smooth breathing on the E of
>> ESTIN; finally it looks like a diaeresis over the W of hELLHNIKWS, but when
>> I enlarge the text on a screen it does look like a ~ circumflex.
>
>Sorry for my carelessness.  This time let me just type something carefully
>so we can have a "good" example of this Unicode scheme in the archives:
>
>?ÉÀ ?ɦÉ'? ?ÉÀ ? ÉŠ?É¡ÉÕV, ɻɸ? ? ÉŠ?É¡ÉÕV ɉ'??ÉÀ ¼É¦?V É-?ÉÀ ɐɈ?ÉÀ,
>ɻɸ? ɐɈ?V ɉ'??ÉÀ ? ÉŠ?É¡ÉÕV.
>
>> If there is a moral to this tale, it lies in the punch-line of a
>>shaggy-dog story
>> about a seminar paper on Aristophanes that I submitted half a century ago
>
>I think the moral to this tale is that some users can see the Unicode
>correctly and some can't no matter what they do (because of their ISP).

And therefore, may we please sustain an atmosphere of mutual respect here
and use the transliteration scheme for the sake of our fellow-list members,
however benighted we may suppose them to be?
-- 

Carl W. Conrad
Co-Chair, B-Greek List
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
WWW: http://www.ioa.com/~cwconrad/



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