From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jambunathan K Subject: Re: OT: collage of scripts [was: Re: table alignment failed for Asian characters] Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 12:11:25 +0530 Message-ID: <81r51xd3e2.fsf@gmail.com> References: <4C630D7B-BD05-4ED4-98A6-5CC6308EED48@gmail.com> <4f2e5228-5cbf-4e4e-bdae-81e32f0017d9@email.android.com> <83sjmey1p5.fsf@yahoo.it> <69A7E2DF-5095-4E59-B5D3-29FDD406270F@gmail.com> <81vcrapklx.fsf@gmail.com> <11431.1319732898@alphaville.dokosmarshall.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:55518) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RJg8W-0006hV-D2 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Oct 2011 02:41:53 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RJg8U-0005iG-Rv for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Oct 2011 02:41:52 -0400 Received: from mail-gy0-f169.google.com ([209.85.160.169]:49225) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RJg8U-0005iC-MV for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Oct 2011 02:41:50 -0400 Received: by gyf3 with SMTP id 3so4024484gyf.0 for ; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 23:41:50 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <11431.1319732898@alphaville.dokosmarshall.org> (Nick Dokos's message of "Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:28:18 -0400") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com Cc: Org Mode Mailing List > Jambunathan's mention of Tamil brought to mind a picture that > I had seen long ago and found mysterious, beautiful and fascinating. > It is Fig. 40, p. 168, in Hofstadter's "G=C3=B6del, Escher, Bach": I look= ed > for a copy on the web, but I only found the complete book. > > The picture is a collage of scripts, from the undeciphered (at least > in 1980, the time of publication) script of Easter Island to Tamil > to Assyrian cuneiform. Book seems like an interesting read. For me to go from frame message -> outer message -> inner message, I think I need to read the whole book and not just a fragment of it :-) Just curious, is the book a standard regular or supplementary reading for courses in US. If yes, courses here could improve a lot. Such readings will make CS/Mathematics fun, fascinating and mysterious. > I have no idea what each snippet says - yet there are people around > today (and in some cases, perhaps, there *were* people some time ago, > but no longer) who can (or could) extract meaning from each of these > snippets. Conversely, there are scripts that I can extract meaning from, > that other people find mysterious. I can't help the feeling that there > is something deep going on here, I just don't know *what*! > > Nick --=20