Let me remind you. You wrote:===== Original Message From Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org> =====
Trevor, now it is you confusing different things. I might think that in
a particular work for a particular audience it is better to
transliterate. But such things should be the editors' decision. They
should not be forced to transliterate because technology does not
support mixed scripts. If they are, computer technology is taking us
backwards from the multi-script support which worked in the hot metal
era e.g. in BDB.
I don't recall indicating otherwise.
True, an organization like SIL might work in several different languages andBut if you are going to produce a multi-script dictionary like BDB, but with computer technology rather than hot metal, you need a coherent system for writing each of those scripts. If Semitists have got on without such devices, it is only because they have not tried to reproduce BDB with computer technology but have allowed their publications to be less multi-script than they used to be.
want a coherent system of writing all of them; but Semitists have got along
for quite some time now without such devices. Their needs have not changed
dramatically in recent years, either.
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