[B-Greek] Koine Kasruth (Especially Keyboards)
George F Somsel
gfsomsel at yahoo.com
Fri Apr 22 11:20:12 EDT 2011
With the Logos Biblical Hebrew keyboard I can type the consonants, vowels --
and the cantillation marks as well as the reverse nun and a few other things
such as the abbreviation for the divine name. I simply don't buy the argument
that there is any virtue to using the national keyboard. That may have been
true shortly after they knocked the corners off stones to form wheels (i.e. when
we were using typewriters and were limited by the character sets they had), but
with computers it is possible to use any keyboard you desire. I simply use the
one which is easiest to me. I don't subscribe to the contention that using a
non-national keyboard distances one from the language since the location of
the characters on the keyboard is purely conventional. There are QWERTY
keyboards and Dvorak keyboards in English, but one does one distance a person
from the language by having a different layout. It would be possible to simply
arrange the keys in alpha order if one so desired though it might make the use
somewhat difficult. I don't find that to be a problem with the Logos keyboards
for either Greek or Hebrew. I won't speak regarding Syriac since my exposure to
it is rather limited.
george
gfsomsel
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From: Jason Hare <jason at thehebrewcafe.com>
To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Fri, April 22, 2011 8:04:26 AM
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Koine Kasruth (Especially Keyboards)
B-Greekers,
I might just add to the below from Dewayne that I type in modern
Hebrew regularly, and I use the same keyboard to type in biblical
Hebrew with vowels as well. Mind you, I can't use the taamim
(cantillation marks) at all on the keyboard (I have to cut and paste
them from the character map), but I think I'm rather proficient with
pointed Hebrew. I'll agree that the system is complicated, but it's
not impossible and just requires a bit of a memory.
It's VERY easy to type in Hebrew without vowels. It's more difficult
to use vowels, but then, most of what I write is without vowels. I
only do maybe a page at a time with vowels. But, using vowels in
Hebrew isn't particularly easy, no matter which keyboard layout you
choose. (And back to Dewayne: I'm looking forward to it, too.)
Regards,
Jason Hare
> 1) The native keyboards (Greek and Israeli Hebrew were primarily, I
> suspect, created for typing the modern forms of the languages, for
> everyday communication, not for scholarly/religious use, and not,
> primarily, for typing the ancient languages. (If I'm wrong about the
> reasons for their creation, fine, but I expect not.)>
>
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