sh/Z (was: Poverty)

[mhcrxlc at dir.manchester-computing-centre.ac.uk]

Mani writes:

>No one has still addressed my question of whether using
>z/Z for "s is a good trend.  In my opinion, it is very
>visually jarring, since it is not intuitive for readers
>of English to make a connection between a 'z' sound and
>the sibilant is is supposed to represent.  Since digraphs
>are still used for 'tha', 'Tha', etc., why not use a
>digraph for one of the sibilants?

I rather agree. My own particular complaint is that this system rules out
using capital letters for punctuation, as is normal in many areas of
Buddhist studies which use romanized text. So as far as I am concerned, it
is unusable.

Lance Cousins

MANCHESTER, UK
Email: mhcrxlc at dir.mcc.ac.uk


 


> From THRASHER at MAIL.LOC.GOV 25 1995 Aug EST 15:46:15
Date: 25 Aug 1995 15:46:15 EST
Reply-To: THRASHER <THRASHER at MAIL.LOC.GOV>
From: ALLEN W THRASHER <THRASHER at MAIL.LOC.GOV>
Subject: RE: COMPARATIVE POVERTY

          On artifacts of exchange rates,  my  personal favorite  was  some 
          news report on the difficulties in Ethiopia.  It said the average 
          income for a college professor for $100 a month but that he would 
          have  100 unemployed relatives dependent on  him.   Either buying 
          power is awesome or their metabolisms are incredibly efficient. 
          Allen Thrasher