Peter Kirk wrote:
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.
OK, but we tried *both* experiments, with non-native speakers and with native speakers, and both gave the same results. Doesn't that indicate something?
~mark
