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Posted: 17 December 2008 05:19 PM   [ Ignore ]
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If you can dot an ‘i’, you can presumably undot it.  You may think this is ‘pointless’, but it could be appropriate in some circumstances, e.g. if you are writing in Turkish where i’s can be dotted or undotted.  (You see, the adjectival form already exists.)  And “I accidentally rubbed out the dot over the ‘i’” is not as concise as “I accidentally undotted the ‘i’”.

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Posted: 18 December 2008 02:17 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]
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That certainly appeals to my senses..you certainly are terse ACB..what made you learn Turkish?

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I’d rather have Jesus than silver or gold…

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Posted: 18 December 2008 12:31 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]
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For not only does Turkish Romanized orthography have both upper & lower case dotless i with majuscule typeface no different than Western capital I and, together with its minuscule ı counterpart, pronounced according to modern IPA ɯ symbol as the close back e in standard English “open”. . . [v. my complete post further down infra]

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1.  הכל הבל׃ hakkōl hâvel Qohelet 1:2 “all (is) vanity” KJV loc. cit.
2.  [οἱ] ἔσχατοι πρῶτοι [Textus Receptus] Mark 10:31 novissimi primi Vulg. “last (shall be) first” ibid.
3.  ’Tis the path you take in life that’s more important!  Sufi wisdom

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Posted: 19 December 2008 11:42 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]
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Only an idedot would undot an i.

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Posted: 20 December 2008 01:05 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 4 ]
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For not only does Turkish Romanized orthography have both upper & lower case dotless i with majuscule typeface no different than Western capital I and, together with its minuscule ı counterpart, pronounced according to modern IPA ɯ symbol as the close back e in standard English “open” but common household vocabulary “dot” once thought to be a severe phonetic corruption of vulgar language “tit” much as familiar idiom tit for tat may originally hail from pristine & uncorrupted tip for tap yet presents one very compelling argument for this Biblical or Tiberian Hebrew etymology: plural grammatical term נְקֻדּוֹת nəquddôṯ = tiny diacritical signs to assist in orthoepic pronunciation of retrograde Hebrew script and, with some inverted truncation, also to signify “dots” with logical back formation “dot” again confirmed from above nəquddôṯ.

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1.  הכל הבל׃ hakkōl hâvel Qohelet 1:2 “all (is) vanity” KJV loc. cit.
2.  [οἱ] ἔσχατοι πρῶτοι [Textus Receptus] Mark 10:31 novissimi primi Vulg. “last (shall be) first” ibid.
3.  ’Tis the path you take in life that’s more important!  Sufi wisdom

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Posted: 03 January 2009 07:52 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 5 ]
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See also the recent thread on ‘Tittle’.

It seems that a script can be untittled as well as untitled.

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Posted: 02 February 2009 11:11 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 6 ]
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January 1, 09: really tittled some conversation.

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