From fisseha@cig.mot.com Thu Feb 16 13:02:16 1995 Received: from moose.cs.indiana.edu by whale.cs.indiana.edu (5.65c/9.4jsm) id AA14754; Thu, 16 Feb 1995 13:02:15 -0500 Received: from motgate.mot.com by moose.cs.indiana.edu (5.65c/9.4jsm) id AA28974; Thu, 16 Feb 1995 13:02:13 -0500 Received: from pobox.mot.com by motgate.mot.com with SMTP (5.67b/IDA-1.4.4/MOT-3.1 for ) id AA02185; Thu, 16 Feb 1995 12:02:08 -0600 Received: from po_box.cig.mot.com by pobox.mot.com with SMTP (5.67b/IDA-1.4.4/MOT-3.1) id AA03104; Thu, 16 Feb 1995 12:02:02 -0600 Received: from gerbil.cig.mot.com (gerbil.cig.mot.com [136.182.7.220]) by po_box.cig.mot.com (8.6.9/SCERG-RELAY-1.11) with ESMTP id NAA19404; Thu, 16 Feb 1995 13:03:27 -0500 Received: (fisseha@localhost) by gerbil.cig.mot.com (8.6.9/SCERG-1.12B) id MAA25960; Thu, 16 Feb 1995 12:01:53 -0600 From: Yonas Fisseha Message-Id: <199502161801.MAA25960@gerbil.cig.mot.com> Subject: Re: Quotation marks... To: ybf2u@curry.edschool.virginia.edu (Yitna Benyam Firdyiwek) Date: Thu, 16 Feb 1995 12:01:52 -0600 (CST) Cc: dmulholl@cs.indiana.edu, fisseha@cig.mot.com, abassa@sugar.neosoft.com In-Reply-To: <199502122101.PAA01453@gerbil.cig.mot.com> from "Yitna Benyam Firdyiwek" at Feb 12, 95 10:36:16 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1002 Status: R yTna> yTna>dan> yTna>dan> Looking at the desta-based table I am wondering now about 2 yTna>dan> permutations. What we have now is: yTna>dan> yTna>dan> ke ku ki ka kE k ko - yTna>dan> kWe kWu kWi kWa KWE yTna>dan> yTna> yTna> yTna> I prefer the original desta-based table (above) because it is yTna> more consistent. We are treating the -W characters as full yTna> sets unless they are anomalies appearing only in one vowel form yTna> (-Wa) in which case we place them in the eighth form (-). does yTna> this make sense? I also think this is a better form than the contiguous version. It is more consistent as yTna said. I cant think of any reasonable justification to place the *Wa in both positions. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Yonas Fisseha, Software Engineer (708)632-6340 Pager: 0113 Motorola, Wireless System Platforms fisseha@cig.mot.com -----------------------------------------------------------------------