Michael Everson scripsit: > 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
Of course it is. > as would be the case for ordinary font change). Not all font changes are acceptable. Give me a book, any book, set in Magnificat, or Stop, and I'll hand you back a pile of well-chewed shreds. > I have referred to Latin font hacks as well as Hebrew ones. That one > got ignored, of course, because it shows the Hebrew font-hack argument > to be flimsy. It's not about font hacks. It's about structural identity. > And frankly, I don't consider that Snyder or Kirk or Cowan speak for > the Semiticist community as they would have us think. I make no such claim, and it's disingenuous of you to say that I do. > Square Hebrew as encoded in the Unicode Standard is a beast unto > itself. John Cowan's wish for a generic 22-letter West Semitic Abjad > may be all very well and good, but Hebrew is much more than that, > and it is not sensible to pretend that it isn't. I don't. -- "They tried to pierce your heart John Cowan with a Morgul-knife that remains in the http://www.ccil.org/~cowan wound. If they had succeeded, you would http://www.reutershealth.com become a wraith under the domination of the Dark Lord." --Gandalf
