Comments for CQ2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cqtwo Ed Murphy Mon, 05 Oct 2009 07:49:19 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 Comment on Transliterating Sanskrit and Pali [updated] by Benct Philip Jonsson http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cqtwo/2009/08/19/transliterating-sanskrit-and-pali/comment-page-1/#comment-3971 Benct Philip Jonsson Mon, 05 Oct 2009 07:49:19 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cqtwo/?p=493#comment-3971 The "diacritics are distracting" argument is just so daft for us whose native languages use diacritics, and/or who regularly read and write foreign languages which use them. I have on occasion had to read passages in my native language Swedish where the diacritics had been 'stripped away', and in fact a native reader cannot fluently read such a passage because it is distracting to have to mentally insert the diacritics from context, e.g. to decide whether the letters really is the word _har_ 'has' or the word _här_ 'here', which neither sound nor mean the same; these words are as different from eachother as either of them is from _hur_ 'how'! Furthermore the context is not always of help: it would for example be relatively easy to write a passage in Sanskrit where be ambiguous between _nāgam_ 'the snake', _nagam_ 'him who doesn't go' and _nagām_ 'her who doesn't go'! I'd like to ask those English speakers who consider diacritics mere adornments to consider vhat it vould pe like to pe presented vith a pook vhere the vriter hadnt pothered to distinguish p, p and p, v and v, or to vrite out any apostropes; it vouldnt be impossiple to read, since most vords vouldnt be ampiguous anyvay, put it vould pe distracting. Omitting diacritics in languages which use them amounts to the same thing! The “diacritics are distracting” argument is just so daft for us whose native languages use diacritics, and/or who regularly read and write foreign languages which use them. I have on occasion had to read passages in my native language Swedish where the diacritics had been ’stripped away’, and in fact a native reader cannot fluently read such a passage because it is distracting to have to mentally insert the diacritics from context, e.g. to decide whether the letters really is the word _har_ ‘has’ or the word _här_ ‘here’, which neither sound nor mean the same; these words are as different from eachother as either of them is from _hur_ ‘how’! Furthermore the context is not always of help: it would for example be relatively easy to write a passage in Sanskrit where be ambiguous between _nāgam_ ‘the snake’, _nagam_ ‘him who doesn’t go’ and _nagām_ ‘her who doesn’t go’!
I’d like to ask those English speakers who consider diacritics mere adornments to consider vhat it vould pe like to pe presented vith a pook vhere the vriter hadnt pothered to distinguish p, p and p, v and v, or to vrite out any apostropes; it vouldnt be impossiple to read, since most vords vouldnt be ampiguous anyvay, put it vould pe distracting. Omitting diacritics in languages which use them amounts to the same thing!

]]> Comment on Itxas-Ondo by mom http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cqtwo/2009/09/26/itxas-ondo/comment-page-1/#comment-3970 mom Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:56:25 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cqtwo/?p=538#comment-3970 What time of day was the photo taken that there was only one person at the bar? I guess it was the time for "the least hip bakienses". I must say the tortilla on the counter is calling me ...... What time of day was the photo taken that there was only one person at the bar? I guess it was the time for “the least hip bakienses”. I must say the tortilla on the counter is calling me ……

]]> Comment on Spanish books for toddlers by Linda Cruz Douglass http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cqtwo/2008/05/20/spanish-books-for-toddlers/comment-page-1/#comment-3967 Linda Cruz Douglass Wed, 16 Sep 2009 02:12:41 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cqtwo/2008/05/20/spanish-books-for-toddlers/#comment-3967 I can't thank you enough for posting this list. I have been looking into spanish books for my daughter that just turned one. I couldn't find anything in the stores other than books full of translations or books originally in english and translated into spanish. I agree that their is a shortage of spanish books. I am going to Miami for Thanksgiving and want to look into finding a good book store that sells spanish children's books. Wonder what I will find. Will ddefinitely look into your suggestions. Thanks very much and God bless! I can’t thank you enough for posting this list. I have been looking into spanish books for my daughter that just turned one. I couldn’t find anything in the stores other than books full of translations or books originally in english and translated into spanish. I agree that their is a shortage of spanish books. I am going to Miami for Thanksgiving and want to look into finding a good book store that sells spanish children’s books. Wonder what I will find. Will ddefinitely look into your suggestions.

Thanks very much and God bless!

]]> Comment on What’s the cheapest flight west from LA? by Niel http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cqtwo/2009/09/08/whats-the-cheapest-flight-west-from-la/comment-page-1/#comment-3964 Niel Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:37:25 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cqtwo/?p=510#comment-3964 Probably, what you need to do is provide a web mashup to proffer pertinent price-per-mile details to the peripatetic public at large so that they may procure according to their purchase preference. Probably, what you need to do is provide a web mashup to proffer pertinent price-per-mile details to the peripatetic public at large so that they may procure according to their purchase preference.

]]> Comment on Mysteries of the East, #2: The Enigma of Harwan by » Ājīvikas in Malhār (south Kōśala) CQ2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cqtwo/2008/02/09/mysteries-of-the-east-2-the-enigma-of-harwan/comment-page-1/#comment-3602 » Ājīvikas in Malhār (south Kōśala) CQ2 Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:27:41 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cqtwo/2008/02/09/mysteries-of-the-east-2-the-enigma-of-h#comment-3602 [...] but which is now a part of the new state of Chhattisgarh.  (More on the enigmatic Ājīvikas previously and, much better, in Basham’s History and Doctrine of the [...] [...] but which is now a part of the new state of Chhattisgarh.  (More on the enigmatic Ājīvikas previously and, much better, in Basham’s History and Doctrine of the [...]

]]> Comment on Mysteries of the East, #2: The Enigma of Harwan by Kathie Brobeck http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cqtwo/2008/02/09/mysteries-of-the-east-2-the-enigma-of-harwan/comment-page-1/#comment-3571 Kathie Brobeck Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:35:44 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cqtwo/2008/02/09/mysteries-of-the-east-2-the-enigma-of-h#comment-3571 Dear Mr.Murphy, I just found your blog googling Harwan, TC tiles I recently saw in the Chicago Art Inst. Same as the ones at M. Guimet. There is a site in Chhattisgarh I visited in'95, that has a pillar w similar ascetics. Can't remember if eyes were sunked and dark as are those on the Harwan tiles. I like to think they're AJIVIKAs, also. I'll send photo if you're interested. Dear Mr.Murphy,
I just found your blog googling Harwan, TC tiles I recently saw in the Chicago Art Inst. Same as the ones at M. Guimet. There is a site in Chhattisgarh I visited in’95, that has a pillar w similar ascetics. Can’t remember if eyes were sunked and dark as are those on the Harwan tiles. I like to think they’re AJIVIKAs, also. I’ll send photo if you’re interested.

]]> Comment on Tranche makes me blanche by Sal Darji http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cqtwo/2009/05/31/tranche-makes-me-blanche/comment-page-1/#comment-3453 Sal Darji Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:36:01 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cqtwo/?p=385#comment-3453 We could definitely learn from the Danes. We could definitely learn from the Danes.

]]> Comment on Here’s to you, Ronnie Drew by » The Bould Ronnie Drew CQ2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cqtwo/2008/03/06/heres-to-you-ronnie-drew/comment-page-1/#comment-3447 » The Bould Ronnie Drew CQ2 Thu, 14 May 2009 13:42:06 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cqtwo/2008/03/06/heres-to-you-ronnie-drew/#comment-3447 [...] tribute (earlier) to the bould Ronnie Drew from Dunne & Dunner with Maeve Whelan and Andrea Hunger, based on the [...] [...] tribute (earlier) to the bould Ronnie Drew from Dunne & Dunner with Maeve Whelan and Andrea Hunger, based on the [...]

]]> Comment on What’s missing from CES: cheap wifi audio connector by scott http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cqtwo/2009/01/09/whats-missing-from-ces-cheap-wifi-audio-connector/comment-page-1/#comment-3446 scott Fri, 08 May 2009 16:31:07 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cqtwo/?p=317#comment-3446 Hear, Hear! (Pun intended) I don't want spend $300 and up for a big ugly box to stream music to my stereo. I'm not looking for HD to a home theater or super clean audiophile quality music, my ears are not that good. I just want to send some music to my living room. We are not all Buffets or Gates, the vast majority of us have far smaller budgets and constitute a very large market. Hear, Hear! (Pun intended) I don’t want spend $300 and up for a big ugly box to stream music to my stereo. I’m not looking for HD to a home theater or super clean audiophile quality music, my ears are not that good. I just want to send some music to my living room. We are not all Buffets or Gates, the vast majority of us have far smaller budgets and constitute a very large market.

]]> Comment on Time immemorial’s birthday by » On Textbooks CQ2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cqtwo/2007/09/03/time-immemorials-birthday/comment-page-1/#comment-3444 » On Textbooks CQ2 Tue, 05 May 2009 20:06:42 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cqtwo/2007/09/03/time-immemorials-birthday/#comment-3444 [...] a hardcore seven-days-a-week, tossed-on-my-doorstep New York Times reader, and I have been since time immemorial.  I’d like to see the paper option continue but I recognize the limitations.   There is [...] [...] a hardcore seven-days-a-week, tossed-on-my-doorstep New York Times reader, and I have been since time immemorial.  I’d like to see the paper option continue but I recognize the limitations.   There is [...]

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