Re: Why blackletter letters?

Andreas,
linguistically speaking (i.e. following the tradition that was started
by Ferdinand de Saussure) when items are used contrastively they must be
considered different linguistic entities on what has been called the
“emic” level: phonemes, morphemes, graphemes, etc. As /gebrochene
Schrift/ and /Antiqua/ were habitually used contrastively there is no
doubt that they are different scripts in that tradition, although they
may be the same script in another tradition. This is very much like [ɛ]
and [æ] being different linguistic entities (phonemes) in English, but
not in German.

Charlie

Am 11.09.2013 12:28, schrieb Andreas Stötzner:
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> Am 11.09.2013 um 11:48 schrieb Charlie Ruland ☘:
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>> /gebrochene Schrift/in general — and what you call “modern Latin”
>> must be considered different scripts
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> No they must not. Supposed, you mean “script” in the sense of “writing
> system”.
> Then you would have to consider minuscule a different script than
> capitals, and italics a different script than Regular Roman. And so on.
> This is all nonsense; Latin script is Latin script, however it may
> look like.
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> Which does not exclude the possibility of various sorts of that
> script/system getting used by variant rules or customs, as you mention
> in your example.
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> Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
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> Andreas Stötzner.
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Received on Wed Sep 11 2013 - 05:59:32 CDT