Torsdag 02 november 2006 08:11, skrev Clytie Siddall: my boyfriend in it. (We're talking 30 years ago, when cave paintings
> had just given way to runic, and the only feedback you got from a > computer was when it spat a punchcard at you.) You too? My first job was with a glorified tabulator that read/printed 300 cards/lines per minute - and spat out punchcards for the "database" of 20,000 cards ... > Hmm, Vietnamese in runic... It really handles combined tones now? > It's an intriguing thought. :D Nope - I don't think diacritics can be added to the futhark[1] :-( But the LotR runes could be adapted, I suppose ... > Our original script is Chữ Nôm [1], a Chinese-based script which > never had a high literacy rate. It's still valued for historical > reasons, though, and it looks great! Ouch. That sent me off into Wikipedia, to the Han unification article. I believe North Korea dropped hanja completely while South Korea still uses about 2000-2500 hanja characters? (So many homonyms in the language that you can see Koreans drawing hanja in their palms to show what they mean :-) ) Somewhat off topic. I'll go back to Skolelinux now as a lot of updates have just been checked in. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runic_alphabet -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
