Kingsley Welcome to silk.
It's interesting that this thread has not yet drifted. But I can see it happening very soon. On Sep 3, 2013 7:25 PM, "Thaths" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 6:24 AM, Kingsley Jegan Joseph <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 6:37 PM, Vinayak Hegde <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 6:22 PM, Kingsley Jegan Joseph < > [email protected] > > >wrote: > > > > > >> हिंदी, picola di Italiano & muy pocito Español, read Brahmi and some > > Tamil > > >> > > > > > > > > > Welcome. Where did you learn Brahmi (or why did you choose it). Asking > > > since it is a pretty unusual choice. > > > > Self-taught, there are a lot of glyph tables online, and all Indian > > scripts being Brahmi-derived, very easy to pick up the concepts. Being > > into history, have always wanted to read inscriptions. Learning Brahmi > > allowed me to read Asokan edicts, which was pretty cool (even though > > the underlying Pali was hard, picking out place and people names was > > cool). > > > > Hi Kingsley, > > I've seen your name around. Don't believe we've actually met. > > Since you are interested in languages/scripts, you'll be interested in one > of the projects I'm working on - developing a harmonious font family to > cover all of the world's (encoded) languages. More details (including some > fonts to download) at noto.googlecode.com > > It has been a fun experience learning about Egyptian Hieroglyphics, > Sumero-Akkadian Cuneiform and Brahmi as we build fonts for those scripts. > > Thaths > PS: For the cypherpunks of the list, we are also building a font for Linear > B. > -- > Homer: Hey, what does this job pay? > Carl: Nuthin'. > Homer: D'oh! > Carl: Unless you're crooked. > Homer: Woo-hoo! >
