Peter Kirk a écrit :
[PA] Why is it important to go to Germany or even that one should understand the underlying text ? Germans understanding a text written in Sütterlin may only prove that some have been exposed to other scripts (Fraktur or Sütterlin for instance, if one says those aren't other scripts we are just having a cicrular argument) or that they are guessing and filling up the gaps (the very different letters) because they are interpreting the text, not that the characters are recognizably Latin characters.
OK, maybe not such a good example. So let's go back to Suetterlin. I would expect a much higher rate of recognition among German users of normal Latin script than among American users of normal Latin script. So a test of recognition in America might seem to indicate that Suetterlin should be disunified from Latin, on the same grounds that you want to disunify Phoenician and Hebrew (plus that Suetterlin has different cursive joining behaviour, just as Syriac does from Hebrew), but a test in Germany might provide evidence against this disunification.
P. A.
