War over 'shuruq' narrowly averted

From: Kenneth Whistler (kenw@sybase.com)
Date: Thu Sep 18 1997 - 17:20:29 EDT


Dateline: Geneva, Thursday, September 18, 1997

The ISOnominalists and the SInominalists met today at
the bargaining table in their long-running dispute over
whether the correct name of U+05BC should be:

HEBREW POINT DAGESH OR MAPIQ (shuruq)

or

HEBREW POINT DAGESH OR MAPIQ OR SHURUQ

After considerable posturing and threats by both sides,
opposing camps reluctantly agreed that a compromise
solution was preferable to open flamewar. Unnamed sources
state that the new name to be revealed in a press
conference this evening is:

HEBREW POINT DAGESH OR MAPIQ (or shuruq)

Both sides have also now agreed to focus their attention
jointly at countering the antinomianist camp, which claims
that no names can be imposed by human moral strictures,
and that faith alone will reveal the true name of
shuruq.



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