From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Mon Dec 29 2003 - 10:39:56 EST
At 06:40 -0800 2003-12-29, Elaine Keown wrote:
>Michael Everson wrote:
> > And the mother of those scripts is Phoenician. She is *not* Hebrew.
>
>The mother script is probably the southern Sinai or Wadi el-Hol
>script, written in about 1,700 B.C.E. by Aramaeans who worked either
>in the copper mines of the southern Sinai or were mercenaries in an
>Egyptian army in the Western Desert.
That would be the grandmother. :-)
>I also think that your attitude is that of a Hellenist or
>Indo-Europeanist, who looks at everything from the perspective of
>Athens.
Think what you like.
>Semitics is "Praeparatio Hellenika"--its other aspects are less important, and
>hence not to be emphasized in computerization or anything else.
I cannot make sense of this at all.
>Not all roads lead to Athens, Michael Everson--some of them go elsewhere
What the bejeesus are you on about, Elaine?
-- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
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