Michael Everson wrote at 7:01 PM on Thursday, May 13, 2004: >There might be time, but there is no reason to make such a proposal. >Archaic Greek is already handled by Greek. It even includes archaic >letters like QOPPA. There are some letters missing, like HETA, but >those can be added in due course.
No, I mean glyphically-archaic Greek (just as you are focused on glyphically-archaic Northwest Semitic). If you believe that multi-dialectical Archaic Greek scripts are already sufficiently covered in plain text by modern Greek glyphs, with their adjuncts, then how in the world can you au contraire propose that multi- dialectical Northwest Semitic scripts, sans adjuncts, be de-unified? The issues are the same, only the differences are much greater in Greek script development. To pick one example, just ask any modern literate Greek to read Archaic Greek glyphs; you will get more numerous, and more deeply puzzled, responses than Shoulson did with modern literate Israelis trying to read Palaeo-Hebrew glyphs. This is inconsistency and, frankly, smacks of anti-Hellenism! [ ;-) Just kidding, of course, on that last remark.] 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
