LINGUIST List 10.215

Wed Feb 10 1999

Qs: Mac Fonts, Past Tense, Controlled Lang Research

Editor for this issue: Karen Milligan <karenlinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. UCB Library Public PC, Font Program for Mac
2. Sean Jensen, Past tense
3. Jeff ALLEN, Controlled Language Research on Spanish

Hello!

Does anyone know of a program specifically with fonts for the McIntosh? 
I especially need Greek fonts.

Thank you!

Fellow LINGUISTs

I wonder if anyone can point me at literature/anecdote/opinion about
the following:

SEE is a verb; TEE is a (golfing) verb. In my capacity as a naive
native speaker I seem to have far less of a problem analysing SEED as
a "badly made" past tense of SEE than I do analysing "TAW" as a "badly
made" past tense of TEE. In fact the latter strikes me as the sort of
excrutiating analogy only a desparate punster (or linguist) could come
up with.

Does TAW strike everyone as being much worse than SEED, or are there
some amongst you for whom SEED is just as "opaque", or even those for
whom SEED is more "opaque" than TAW?

Summary if the response warrants it....

Thanks

S.
- ---------
Sean Jensen

email: seanjseanj.demon.co.uk
www: www.seanj.demon.co.uk
tel/fax: 86 20 8736 0065

Dear all,

With regard to controlled languages, much research has been 
on English (AECMA Simplified English, Caterpillar Technical
English, Diebold Controlled English, General Motors
CASL, Perkins PACE, etc). Aerospatiale has also worked
on the GIFAS "francais rationalise" that is the French
equivalent of AECMA SE).

Does anyone know of controlled language research done 
on Spanish? Please send bibliographical info, web site, 
e-mail, fax info to me directly at <jeffelda.fr>.

Thanks in advance,

Jeff Allen - Technical Director
European Language resources Distribution Agency
<jeffelda.fr>


=================================================
Jeff ALLEN - Directeur Technique
European Language Resources Association (ELRA) &
European Language Resources Distribution Agency (ELDA) 
(Agence Europenne de Distribution des Ressources Linguistiques)
55, rue Brillat-Savarin
75013 Paris FRANCE
Tel: (+33) (0) 1.43.13.33.33 - Fax: (+33) (0) 1.43.13.33.30
mailto:jeffelda.fr
http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html