Re: wikipedia mistakes (was Re: What's the difference)

From: Rex F. May (rex.may_at_comcast.net)
Date: 07/20/04 

Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 15:55:39 GMT

in article 40FD3BF4.41FA@worldnet.att.net, Peter T. Daniels at
grammatim@worldnet.att.net wrote on 7/20/04 9:36 AM:

>> """
>> An alphasyllabary or abugida (a term coined by Peter T. Daniels) is a
>> kind of writing system whose basic signs denote consonants with an
>> inherent vowel and where consistent modifications of the basic sign
>> indicate other following vowels than the inherent one (or, in some
>> cases, the lack of a vowel, for example as the final consonant in a
>> CVC syllable or in consonant clusters). As the term alphasyllabary
>> suggests, they are considered an intermediate step between alphabets
>> and syllabaries. Some abugidas, notably the Brahmic scripts, are
>> thought to have evolved from alphabetic scripts.
>> """
>
> Whre do they _get_ this stuff? It is absolutely _not_ considered an
> "intermediate step"! No abugida has ever turned into a syllabary; the
> syllabary is a dead end.

Interesingly, if you had written the article, the mistake wouldn't be there.
But if you had written it, the 'editors' or whatever they are would have
deemed the entry 'vanity' and started a big movement to delete it. I kid
you not. Look at the tempest in a teapot over my innocent little 'Ceqli'
entry there:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/temp#Ceqli_languag
e_.26mdash.3B_Add_to_this_discussion

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