03/05/2004 05:19, Michael Everson wrote:
Suetterlin.
Oh shut UP about Sütterlin already. I don't know where you guys come up with this stuff. Sütterlin is a kind of stylized handwriting based on Fraktur letterforms and ductus. It is hard to read. It is not hard to learn, ...
Since when is this an argument ? Neither is Phoenician hard to learn (22 letters with no contextual variants, etc.)... Could we please remain courteous ?
... and it is not hard to see the relationship between its forms and Fraktur. ...
The relationship is not at all apparent to someone that reads only the Latin Script and does not know the genealogy from the Fraktur Script to the German Script (as Sütterlin was also called). (I like mentioning that people saw them as different scripts.) Quite analogous to a set of historically related Northern Semitic scripts, and obviously if you have learned the genealogy of these scripts it is easy to recognize the relationship...
P. A.
