From: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven (asmodai@in-nomine.org)
Date: Thu Jun 07 2007 - 02:50:34 CDT
-On [20070607 09:00], William J Poser (wjposer@ldc.upenn.edu) wrote:
>I've never seen the first problematic glyph-complex, but I can
>say with some confidence that it is a mistake since it ends with
>a virama which is followed by a vowel sign, which is impossible.
>Something is wrong.
It has been many years since I regularly spoke Hindi or Sarnami (Surinam
Bhojpuri dialect), so my only goal was to transscribe this into UTF-8 for my
acquaintance.
Apparently he is dealing with a client who works with volunteer translators,
so I guess you get what you paid for. ;)
But if the general consensus is that this is a nonsense sentence, I will let
him know that as well.
-- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai(-at-)in-nomine.org> / asmodai イェルーン ラウフロック ヴァン デル ウェルヴェン http://www.in-nomine.org/ | http://www.rangaku.org/ Every person takes the limits for their own field of vision for the limits of the world...
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