> > > >That expectation is of course not acceptable to scholars.>> >> Scholars do what they want. > >And who, exactly, would use the new characters besides scholars?
Students of various alphabet and writing systems, and authors of educational and historical materials.
Don't such people count as scholars?
Read the document, please. Look at the bibliography. The Phoenician script has been recognized and published about as a separate unique entity in those contexts for a very, very long time indeed. That is a different user community from students of ancient Semitic languages
Ah, so when you said "Scholars do what they want" I should have interpreted it as "Certain scholars do what they want."
You might have said that "That expectation is of course not acceptable to certain scholars", then.
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