From ybf2u@curry.edschool.virginia.edu Sun Feb 12 16:02:06 1995 Received: from moose.cs.indiana.edu by whale.cs.indiana.edu (5.65c/9.4jsm) id AA29124; Sun, 12 Feb 1995 16:02:05 -0500 Received: from virginia.edu (uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU) by moose.cs.indiana.edu (5.65c/9.4jsm) id AA09599; Sun, 12 Feb 1995 16:02:04 -0500 Received: from curry.edschool.virginia.edu by uvaarpa.virginia.edu id aa17405; 12 Feb 95 12:43 EST Received: (from ybf2u@localhost) by curry.edschool.Virginia.EDU (8.6.8/8.6.6) id KAA24847; Sun, 12 Feb 1995 10:36:17 -0500 From: Yitna Benyam Firdyiwek Message-Id: <199502121536.KAA24847@curry.edschool.Virginia.EDU> Subject: Re: Quotation marks... To: dan'El yaqob , Yonas Fisseha , Abass Alamnehe Date: Sun, 12 Feb 95 10:36:16 EST In-Reply-To: <199502120423.XAA107763@curry.edschool.Virginia.EDU>; from "Daniel Yaqob" at Feb 11, 95 11:23 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3.1 PL11] Status: R selam > > Looking at the desta-based table I am wondering now about 2 > permutations. What we have now is: > > ke ku ki ka kE k ko - > kWe kWu kWi kWa KWE > I prefer the original desta-based table (above) because it is more consistent. We are treating the -W characters as full sets unless they are anomalies appearing only in one vowel form (-Wa) in which case we place them in the eighth form (-). does this make sense? A case could be made for placeing the -Wa in both positions, but I don't know how to justify it. > > -yTna, Was there a reason the Ethiopic quotation marks were omitted > in the '93 table? No. it must have been a mistake. I am assuming you mean the double angles as in << text in quote >> > > ...must run, > > -dan'El > > ...me too yTna