Re: special marks in Bengali poetry

From: Michael Everson (everson@egt.ie)
Date: Tue Jan 30 2001 - 12:10:08 EST


Ar 05:52 -0800 2001-01-30, scríobh Peter_Constable@sil.org:

>As you said, I am trying to test the waters. There is a character used for
>Syloti Nagri which is comparable to the character I described, and I'm
>trying to see if the Bengali character has been thought through so that I
>might use that as a precident for what to propose for the SN character.

I don't think so.

>So, Michael, you've responded not by answering the questions I asked but by
>asking other questions. Of all the questions on the table, do you have any
>thoughts about answers?

I can't have any thoughts about the Bengali character until I see it. I
don't like guessing; I like evidence.

Cheers,

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