From: Michael \(michka\) Kaplan (michka@trigeminal.com)
Date: Mon Jun 23 2003 - 02:52:16 EDT
(reminded of a South Park Episode... the spelling bee in "Hooked on Monkey
Phonics")
excerpt:
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MAYOR: Here we go - "kroxldyphivc".
KYLE: What?!?
MAYOR: "kroxldyphivc".
KYLE: Definition?
MAYOR: Something which has a kroxldyph-like quality.
KYLE: Uh, could you use it in a sentence?
MAYOR: Certainly -- " 'Kroxldyphivc' is a hard word to spell."
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Of course, with a definition and usage example like that, its no wonder Kyle
messed up the word and lost the spelling bee. :-)
MichKa
----- Original Message -----
From: <Peter_Constable@sil.org>
To: "Michael Everson" <everson@evertype.com>
Cc: <unicode@unicode.org>; <unicore@unicode.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2003 11:07 PM
Subject: Re: Revised N2586R
> It seems to me the proposal would present a stronger case if samples were
> available that were something *other* than an explanation of the symbol in
> a dictionary, encyclopaedia, or other reference. It would be similar to
> these kinds of samples if I were to create a proposal using as a sample
> the Phonetic Symbol Guide, but that might not clearly show if a character
> was something that was merely proposed by someone at one time but never
> actually used -- in such a case, taking a sample from Phonetic Symbol
> Guide does not really demonstrate the need to encode as a character for
> text representation. Likewise, the sample for (e.g.) the fleur-de-lis
> doesn't really provide a case that this should be a character to
> facilitate representation in text. It wouldn't be hard to provide a
> comparable descriptive paragraph that began with an image of the Stars and
> Stripes, but I don't think we'd want to encode the US flag as a character.
>
> I'm not saying that I oppose the proposed characters; just that samples of
> a different nature would make for a stronger case.
>
>
> - Peter
>
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> Peter Constable
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> 7500 W. Camp Wisdom Rd., Dallas, TX 75236, USA
> Tel: +1 972 708 7485
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