Re: Ancient Northwest Semitic Script

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Sat Dec 27 2003 - 11:57:29 EST

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    At 11:20 -0500 2003-12-27, Dean Snyder wrote:

    >But my main objection is that you have ALREADY made up your mind
    >about Phoenician and Hebrew, categorically and emphatically
    >declaring that there is "zero chance" that they will be considered
    >glyphic variants of one another.

    I'm sorry you object. I remain convinced, however, that suggestion
    that Phoenician be unified with Hebrew and Phoenician is ridiculous
    in the extreme, and I will oppose it absolutely. Likewise, it is
    clear that Samaritan is also not to be unified with Hebrew. There may
    be some grey area regarding the relation of one variety or another of
    Aramaic to Phoenician, and to Hebrew and other descendants of
    Aramaic. That is what gave rise to this and related threads.

    If you don't like this, that's fine. You can raise your objections
    when I eventually have the time and resources to push the Phoenician
    or Samaritan proposal forward. (Realistically, we can't expect that
    any one else will be doing so.) I'm not going to do that now, nor am
    I going to engage in further academic debate with you. You've put far
    more weight on the niggly details in N2311, which is an informative
    document written two years ago in order to help make sense out of
    chaos. O'Connor's chart there is one of many charts; its being there
    is also informative.

    In the meantime, the Roadmap will stay as it is, because these issues
    remain open. As I see it, it is a certainty that Phoenician and
    Samaritan will be encoded, for good reasons I shall not go into here.
    And in due course, it will be possible to discuss what remains.

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


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