RE: New contribution

From: Francois Yergeau (FYergeau@alis.com)
Date: Tue May 04 2004 - 09:53:49 CDT


Peter Constable wrote:
> the Old Latin doesn't have the accents, but if you
> used the 23
> uni-cameral characters for Vietnamese text, then surely a Vietnamese
> speaker would recognize it as caseless Vietnamese with the accents
> stripped off.
>
>...
> So, while Michael's argument was flawed in the way he expressed it, I
> think your counter-argument also is flawed.

Hmmm, I'm not sure it's flawed. Sure, recognizability makes it
non-equivalent to the Phoenician-Hebrew case, but it still demonstrates that
a subset-superset relationship between purported scripts A and B does not
make them distinct.

Recognizability is a much better argument, IMHO, but then there's
Sütterlin... And cyphers, as you mention in another message.

-- 
François


This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Fri May 07 2004 - 18:45:25 CDT