From: Christian Cooke (ccooke@fishamble.net)
Date: Tue May 04 2004 - 17:41:08 CDT
Patrick,
On 4 May 2004, at 21:27, Patrick Andries wrote:
>
>> Patrick Andries a écrit :
>>> Christian Cooke a écrit :
>>>> Surely a cipher is by definition "after the event", i.e. there must
>>>> be the parent script before the child. Does it not follow that, by
>>>> John's reasoning, if one is no more than a cipher of the other then
>>>> it is Hebrew that is the cipher and so the only way Phoenician and
>>>> Hebrew can be unified (a suggestion you'll have to assume is
>>>> suitably showered with smileys :-) is for the latter to be
>>>> deprecated and the former encoded as the /real/ parent script?
>>>
>>> What is so important about genealogy ?
>>
>> Let me precise this : what is so important whether we encode the
>> father or one of the sons ?
[again eschewing any claim to expertise...]
On 4 May 2004, at 17:04, John Hudson wrote:
> How do you distinguish those scripts that are rejected as 'ciphers' of
> other scripts from those which you want to encode, if 1:1
> correspondence is not sufficient grounds for unification but visual
> dissimilarity is grounds for disunification?
Leaving aside the fact that the "son" is already encoded, I suppose I'm
asking how a script can predate a script (Hebrew, or Aramaic so I'm
told) it is said to be the cipher of.
Regards,
Christian
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