At 01:02 PM 3/20/02 -0500, John Cowan wrote:
>John H. Jenkins scripsit:
>
> > No, no. Convert them into phonetics and write them in Deseret.
>
>Good idea, but the wrong spirit. Fraktur is to Traditional Han as
>Antiqua is to Simplified Han.
Since Latin majuscules predate the mediaeval manuscripts from which the
Fraktur forms were evolved this analogy is seriously backwards. Antiqua is
not a simplification of Fraktur, but Fraktur capitals are embellished
versions of handwritten forms based on Latin majuscules.
A./
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