Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2005 18:40:06 +0200 (CEST)
From: "Gentium User" <waythrow-sil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.de>
Subject: Sinitic-Vietnamese draft + Vietnamese 2020


Dear dchph,
I had a short glance at your draft of an introduction
to Sinitic-Vietnamese Studies. Seems to make for an
interesting read.
On www.vny2k.net/vny2k/SiniticVietnamese.htm, you provide a link to a popular Unicode true-type
font. This font is propietary and I am not sure
whether it is legal to download it. There is a very
beautiful font which is much better suited for
Vietnamese. That font is called GentiumAlt and
everybody can download it for free from
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=Gentium_download
I suggest you set a link to that download page
instead. You can download an archive containing the
fonts Gentium and GentiumAlt. When reading Vietnamese,
the latter looks better than the former, although I
viewed your draft with Gentium and it worked fine.

In your Vietnamese 2020 proposal, you mentioned a
couple of German terms which I'd like to comment on /
correct:
"Informationssystemverarbeitung" < I've never heard of
that, but there might be people who use it. Anybody
could basically coin any word just like in English;
the only difference with English is really that in
German, you should not leave spaces in a word, or at
least use hyphens.
"Aufwiedersehen" < this is wrong; should be "auf
Wiedersehen" or (as an expression) "Auf Wiedersehen!"
"Recherchem枚glichkeiten" = (re)search possibilities
(plural!), NOT "possibility research"
"Datenbanken" = data banks? (Plural, NOT "data bank";
besides, aren't those things called data*bases*
instead of data*banks*?)
"Betriebwirschaft" should be "Betriebswirtschaft"
Cheers
jns

PS. You write "We are the advocates of the new
Vietnamese2020 language reform!" - shouldn't this be
"I am the advocate of a new Vietnamese 2020 language
reform!" instead?

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