<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33245564.post66830669860312491..comments</id><updated>2010-12-31T21:02:22.723+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Comments on bulbulistan: qohelet</title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blog.bulbul.sk/feeds/66830669860312491/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33245564/66830669860312491/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog.bulbul.sk/2010/12/qohelet.html'/><author><name>bulbul</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14505565281151328789</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_7woCaXfP5nU/RZq6aS7fHRI/AAAAAAAAAAM/xec9_OwqLUg/s200/bulbul-picture.0.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>1</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33245564.post-9093480399025319463</id><published>2010-12-31T21:02:22.723+01:00</published><updated>2010-12-31T21:02:22.723+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Nice new look!

When I looked at those &amp;quot;crown...</title><content type='html'>Nice new look!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When I looked at those &amp;quot;crowns of dots&amp;quot;, I immediately read them as /a/, and thought of the conventional vocalization of acronymic names like RaMBaM and MaHaRaL (rabbi and roboticist).  But then I did a double-take, and thought, &amp;quot;What I am thinking?  That&amp;#39;s not the vowel sign for /a/ at all.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At which point I did a &lt;i&gt;triple&lt;/i&gt;-take, and realized that I read them as /a/ because they are Tengwar vowel signs for /a/!</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33245564/66830669860312491/comments/default/9093480399025319463'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33245564/66830669860312491/comments/default/9093480399025319463'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog.bulbul.sk/2010/12/qohelet.html?showComment=1293825742723#c9093480399025319463' title=''/><author><name>John Cowan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11452247999156925669</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://blog.bulbul.sk/2010/12/qohelet.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33245564.post-66830669860312491' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33245564/posts/default/66830669860312491' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='blogger.itemClass' value='pid-1887356661'/></entry></feed>
