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I've been looking at other introductory Sanskrit textbooks and am slightly stymied by the amount of typographical variation that the devanāgarī letters seem to exhibit. I'm reminded of Hofstadter's "Letter-Spirit problem" and his comments about METAFONT in "Metamagical Themas".
— Dec 19, 2016 04:44PM
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The dēvanāgarī romanization system Egenes uses (IAST) is generally quite workable, but I'm really annoyed by his practice of not putting macrons on e and o, even though these are long vowels like ā, ī, ū. (The justification for this is that, unlike with the latter three, there's no short e or o that need to be differentiated from the long forms.) Going to make a habit of doing so anyway.
— Dec 23, 2016 04:57PM
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Ugh, I'm terrible at distinguishing aspirated from unaspirated consonants. I don't care about acquiring spoken fluency/listening comprehension, but still.
— Dec 04, 2016 12:47PM
