From: Ernest Cline (ernestcline@mindspring.com)
Date: Wed Apr 28 2004 - 22:04:36 EDT
There is one simple question I have about the Phoenician script
proposal. From the discussion I gather that Modern Hebrew
can be considered a superset of Phoenician, but based
on the information in the proposal, so can several other alphabets
that are disjoint from Modern Hebrew, such as Greek. Based on
that, it would seem logical to encode the common core Phoenician
script as a separate script.
Also, judging only by the evidence given in the proposal, which is
all I have to go on here, I can't say that unifying the various systems
for writing numbers into a single Phoenician one seems warranted,
especially given their divergent treatments of 4 and 5 which the
proposal simply ignores. It would make as much sense as if one
were to propose a unified Graeco-Latin that contained A, B, E, H, I,
K, M, N, O P, T, X, Y, and Z only and dismissed the non-common
glyphs as unimportant.
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