[Egyptian] submitting proposal

[Nigel Strudwick]

Right.

I obviously do not know what the future holds if we do not clarify things now, but I would innately share the gut feeling that we are otherwise headed for several more years without agreement. This is precisely why I convened the meeting in Cambridge.

If “there is no consensus”, then perhaps everyone needs to look deeply at what they are doing and think, just think, about a compromise. Please everyone, in the interests of co-operation, try and pull together, accept some compromise, and perhaps let the great and good of the UTC know where the conflicting issues are and help everyone to see sense.

This is as bad as classic British industrial relations. where no-one wants to give in. If we achieve nothing, then the whole Unicode business becomes nothing more or less than an intellectual exercise, proving that we can do something for no end. 

Let us try and make something happen. “Yes we can”, to quote a well-known public figure.

Nigel

On 25 Jul 2016, at 12:53, Mark-Jan Nederhof <mn31 at st-andrews.ac.uk> wrote:

> Dear All,
> 
> Let me first thank our kind hosts for bringing so many experts together in Cambridge,
> both from the UTC and Egyptologists working on corpus linguistics. As far as I know, 
> this was a unique event, creating an extraordinary opportunity to make progress. 
> I learned a lot from discussions with UTC members and with Egyptologists.
> 
> As for the prospect of a consensus proposal, there is no consensus. The recent emails made
> this very clear. 
> 
> Time is running out. If no new proposal is submitted now, we have to wait many more months
> for the next opportunity, and there is no guarantee (and personally I think no hope at all)
> there would be anything resembling a full or partial consensus then.
> 
> We (TLA/Ramses/St Andrews) are therefore submitting a revised proposal to the UTC, which 
> is grosso modo the version that I distributed during the weekend. 
> 
> For me, this ends the discussion for the time being.
> 
> Best regards,
> Mark-Jan
> 
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