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Re: "Turkish cannot go back to Arabic script"
OK, I'll take the bait.The first statement is debatable. Arabic script is extremely well suited to semitic languages with their reliance on TRY-CNSNNTL RWTS; not so much for most other languages wher…3 -
Re: Considering new computer: Feedback on MacBook Pros from last couple years.
Compared to the new MacBook Pro, the Air handles like a plastic toy. If you're going to spend your whole workday welded to that trackpad, it does matter.1 -
Re: Considering new computer: Feedback on MacBook Pros from last couple years.
As for monitor size: I've never had anything smaller than 15', and wouldn't want to. A laptop doesn't have to be as small as possible, only small enough to fit in your backpack. (And you might want t…1 -
Re: Considering new computer: Feedback on MacBook Pros from last couple years.
I agree that the trackpad is too large. Even now, having used it for a long while, I occasionally find the cursor skipping to another place in the text while I'm typing, presumably because I brushed …1 -
Re: How do you handle the finances of a project?
Since you name-tagged me: I haven't done any commissioned work so far, so I wouldn't know. In the case of the Cormorant family, the «negotiations» basically came down to Dave Crossland making an offe…2
