Re: Response to Everson Phoenician and why June 7?

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Fri May 21 2004 - 08:50:14 CDT

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    At 00:10 -0400 2004-05-21, Dean Snyder wrote:
    >James Kass wrote at 4:06 AM on Friday, May 21, 2004:
    >
    >>Doesn't the idea that so many people will embrace a new Phoenician range
    >>imply that it's the right thing to do?
    >
    >Doesn't the idea that so many people will embrace a new Fraktur range
    >imply that it's the right thing to do?

    Duh.

    It's already been demonstrated that while readers of Latin
    immediately recognize and read wedding invitations written in
    Fraktur, readers of Hebrew don't even know what the Phoenician
    letters are.

    -- 
    Michael Everson * * Everson Typography *  * http://www.evertype.com
    


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