Peter Kirk wrote:
On 03/05/2004 19:03, Michael Everson wrote:
Wedding invitations are routinely set in Blackletter and Gaelic typefaces. I bet you Â20 that if an ordinary Hebrew speaker sent out a wedding invitation in Palaeo-Hebrew no one would turn up on the day.
And I bet you Â20 that is an ordinary English speaker sent out a wedding invitation in Suetterlin no one would turn up on the day. Now we just need some gullible couples to put our challenges to the test!
Well, it doesn't need to be a wedding invitation, does it? I'll give it a try; I've downloaded a SÃtterlin font, and I'll type up a small document and see if I can get some English-readers to read it or recognize it.
Even if they can't read it, I'll bet they can recognize it as Latin letters and possibly English, which was not so for Paleo-Hebrew and Hebrew.
~mark
