4.1121 Rs: Code; Sentences; Medicine; Halio Redux (4/50)
Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Mon, 4 Mar 91 19:36:24 EST
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 4, No. 1121. Monday, 4 Mar 1991.
(1) Date: Sun, 3 Mar 91 15:25:18 MET (17 lines)
From: Harry Gaylord <galiard@let.rug.nl>
Subject: unicode & 10646
(2) Date: Mon, 4 Mar 91 12:56:36 +0100 (10 lines)
From: Ton.vanderWouden@let.ruu.nl
Subject: Re: 4.1115 ... Sentence length distribution
(3) Date: Mon, 04 Mar 91 11:46:17 GMT (6 lines)
From: H J Blumenthal <AR01@liverpool.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: 4.1112 ... Ancient Medicine
(4) Date: 01 Mar 91 18:11:48 EST (17 lines)
From: James O'Donnell <JODONNEL@PENNSAS>
Subject: Halio once again
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Date: Sun, 3 Mar 91 15:25:18 MET
From: Harry Gaylord <galiard@let.rug.nl>
Subject: unicode & 10646
There is far more heat than light being produced on the various
listservers discussing these two standards. The most fundamental
question is if languages in which with limited space one can create a
character set with all the combinations of letter + accents + sub or
superscripts should be forced to work with what amounts to floating
accents on the one side and whether an enormous amount of space in the
character set must be wasted in non used reserved control character
space. There is plenty of room for cooperation to establish a
reasonable good international standard if people don't waste their time
arguing for their own camp and against the other.
Harry
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Date: Mon, 4 Mar 91 12:56:36 +0100
From: Ton.vanderWouden@let.ruu.nl
Subject: Re: 4.1115 ... Sentence length distribution
Re Sentence Length Distribution: I seem to have seen something about it
in the classical book by Gustav Herdan: Language as choice and chance
(1956); according to our Library Catalog, there is an `Advanced Theory
of Language as choice and chance', Springer 1966, by the same author.
Ton van der Wouden (vanderwouden@let.ruu.nl)
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Date: Mon, 04 Mar 91 11:46:17 GMT
From: H J Blumenthal <AR01@liverpool.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: 4.1112 ... Ancient Medicine
Another name to add to Stephen Clarks list: James Longrigg, Dept. of
Classics, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
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Date: 01 Mar 91 18:11:48 EST
From: James O'Donnell <JODONNEL@PENNSAS>
Subject: Halio once again
Veteran HUMANISTs will be surprised to see Edward Mendelson, professor of
comparative literature at Columbia whose reviews of word processing
software are familiar to readers of PC Magazine, mouthing the most trite
and banal of anti-PC platitudes in a prominent back-page column in the
22 February *TLS*, entitled `How computers can damage your prose': a
self-exemplifying artifact if ever I saw one. The last of the eleven
paragraphs begins:
A researcher at the University of Delaware reported recently (in
*Academic Computing*, January 1990) that randomly selected first-year
undergraduates who wrote on a Macintosh typically wrote childish
prose about trivial subjects, while students who wrote on IBM
machines wrote more complex sentences about more serious subjects.