From: owner-scribes@castle.org (scribes digest) To: scribes-digest@castle.org Subject: scribes digest V8 #34 Reply-To: Sender: owner-scribes@castle.org Errors-To: owner-scribes@castle.org Precedence: bulk scribes digest Sunday, July 28 2002 Volume 08 : Number 034 ======================================================================== To unsubscribe from this list, send email to with unsubscribe scribes-digets in the body of the message. Leave the subject line blank. Do not include any additional text. [none] [scribes]: Arabic vs pseudo Arabic Re: [scribes]: Arabic vs pseudo Arabic Re: [scribes]: Arabic vs pseudo Arabic ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 15:23:55 -0400 From: "Danielle Scott" Subject: [none] Hi gang! I’ve been a member of Elfwood Galleries for a couple years now and every once in a while I like to see what others are doing. The other day I came across this one artist. She isn’t Scadian, but her gouache work is absolutely superb! I actually screen captured her work to use as a reference for some of my scrolls. If anyone else would like to see her work please check out her link below. http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/loth/a/l/alirka/alirka.html Back to the scribal table Daniela _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com =================================================================== To unsubscribe from this list, send email to with a blank Subject: line and unsubscribe scribes in the body of the message. Do not include any additional text in the body. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 13:41:54 EDT From: Floriligeum@aol.com Subject: [scribes]: Arabic vs pseudo Arabic - --part1_35.2a60b1b6.2a7586e2_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Greetings, As I am homing in on a design for this Middle Eastern scroll I am still trying to decide weather to find someone to write out the text in Arabic or if I should just use a pseudo Arabic hand. Without wanting to start a fire storm of opinions what is the general feeling of one versus the other? Yours in service, Sarra the Lymner Caer Adamant (DE), East Kingdom MKA Sarah Dressler Sarra's Florilegium www.sarrasflorilegium.knownworldweb.com - --part1_35.2a60b1b6.2a7586e2_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Greetings,

As I am homing in on a design for this Middle Eastern scroll I am still trying to decide weather to find someone to write out the text in Arabic or if I should just use a pseudo Arabic hand.

Without wanting to start a fire storm of opinions what is the general feeling of one versus the other?

Yours in service,

Sarra the Lymner

Caer Adamant (DE), East Kingdom
MKA Sarah Dressler
Sarra's Florilegium
www.sarrasflorilegium.knownworldweb.com
- --part1_35.2a60b1b6.2a7586e2_boundary-- =================================================================== To unsubscribe from this list, send email to with a blank Subject: line and unsubscribe scribes in the body of the message. Do not include any additional text in the body. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 14:32:34 -0400 From: "Kara Westfall" Subject: Re: [scribes]: Arabic vs pseudo Arabic This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - ------=_NextPart_000_0198_01C23643.9CCCA040 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Without wanting to start a fire storm of opinions what is the general = feeling of one versus the other?=20 My opinion is, if you can find someone to do a translation for you = without a major hassle, do it. If not, go with the pseudo. Real is always better.=20 Also, if you know anything about the recipient, you could try to find = out if=20 they have a preference either way. Chiara - ------=_NextPart_000_0198_01C23643.9CCCA040 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Without wanting to start a fire storm of opinions what is the = general=20 feeling of one versus the other?

My opinion is, if you can find someone to do a = translation for=20 you without a major hassle,

do it. If not, go with the pseudo. Real is always = better.=20

Also, if you know anything about the recipient, = you could=20 try to find out if

they have a preference either way.

Chiara

- ------=_NextPart_000_0198_01C23643.9CCCA040-- =================================================================== To unsubscribe from this list, send email to with a blank Subject: line and unsubscribe scribes in the body of the message. Do not include any additional text in the body. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 12:16:53 -0700 From: Karen Williams Subject: Re: [scribes]: Arabic vs pseudo Arabic Floriligeum@aol.com wrote: > > As I am homing in on a design for this Middle Eastern scroll I am > still trying to decide weather to find someone to write out the text > in Arabic or if I should just use a pseudo Arabic hand. I've always felt that real is better, but if you can't do real, do pseudo. For me, it's always more fun to do things as closely as possible to how they would have done it, and if you can do the scroll in the actual Arabic script, you've learned that much more and saved yourself the trouble of making up something non authentic. Branwen ferch Emrys - -- Karen Williams branwen@ix.netcom.com =================================================================== To unsubscribe from this list, send email to with a blank Subject: line and unsubscribe scribes in the body of the message. Do not include any additional text in the body. ------------------------------ End of scribes digest V8 #34 ****************************