Michael Everson wrote at 9:47 AM on Monday, May 3, 2004: >Square Hebrew has accrued to it an enormous >typographical complexity, none of which applies >to the scripts we propose to unify under >Phoenician. It is false to suggest that >fully-pointed Hebrew text can be rendered in >Phoenician script and that this is perfectly >acceptable to any Hebrew reader (as would be the >case for ordinary font change).
Modern Greek has accrued to it an enormous typographical complexity, none of which applies to the archaic Greek scripts we propose to unify under Aegeanic. It is false to suggest that fully-accented and lower-cased Greek text can be rendered in archaic Greek script and that this is perfectly acceptable to any Greek reader (as would be the case for ordinary font change). >And frankly, I don't consider that Snyder or Kirk >or Cowan speak for the Semiticist community as >they would have us think. I, for one, have never claimed to speak for the Semiticist community - I speak only for myself. This is ad hominem and avoids addressing the issues, we, and others have raised. 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
