From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Mon May 10 2004 - 09:43:15 CDT
On 08/05/2004 08:19, Michael Everson wrote:
> At 16:59 -0700 2004-05-07, E. Keown wrote:
>
>> You seem to have learned a lot from Michael Everson. Your basic
>> procedure is simply to ignore all objections and pretend they are
>> stupid.
>
>
> I have not ignored your objections. I have rejected them because they
> are inadequate to the task of encoding all of the world's writing
> systems in the Universal Character Set.
>
> Professional Semiticists are not the only surviving cultural owners of
> the world's Middle Eastern historical cultural heritage.
Nor are you, Michael, or even you and your Indo-Europeanist friends. So
listen to the rest of us, and we will listen to you.
-- Peter Kirk peter@qaya.org (personal) peterkirk@qaya.org (work) http://www.qaya.org/
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