From: Dean Snyder (dean.snyder@jhu.edu)
Date: Tue May 04 2004 - 17:04:12 CDT
Michael Everson wrote at 9:47 AM on Monday, May 3, 2004:
>Square Hebrew has accrued to it an enormous
>typographical complexity, none of which applies
>to the scripts we propose to unify under
>Phoenician. It is false to suggest that
>fully-pointed Hebrew text can be rendered in
>Phoenician script and that this is perfectly
>acceptable to any Hebrew reader (as would be the
>case for ordinary font change).
Modern Greek has accrued to it an enormous typographical complexity, none
of which applies to the archaic Greek scripts we propose to unify under
Aegeanic. It is false to suggest that fully-accented and lower-cased
Greek text can be rendered in archaic Greek script and that this is
perfectly acceptable to any Greek reader (as would be the case for
ordinary font change).
>And frankly, I don't consider that Snyder or Kirk
>or Cowan speak for the Semiticist community as
>they would have us think.
I, for one, have never claimed to speak for the Semiticist community - I
speak only for myself. This is ad hominem and avoids addressing the
issues, we, and others have raised.
Respectfully,
Dean A. Snyder
Assistant Research Scholar
Manager, Digital Hammurabi Project
Computer Science Department
Whiting School of Engineering
218C New Engineering Building
3400 North Charles Street
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland, USA 21218
office: 410 516-6850
cell: 717 817-4897
www.jhu.edu/digitalhammurabi
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