Re: Response to Everson Phoenician and why June 7?

From: Dean Snyder (dean.snyder@jhu.edu)
Date: Fri May 21 2004 - 14:52:40 CDT

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    Mark E. Shoulson wrote at 2:35 PM on Friday, May 21, 2004:

    >Dean Snyder wrote:
    >
    >>Furthermore, this has the advantage of side-
    >>stepping the whole issue of the origins of the Greek alphabet along with
    >>its subsequent Mediterranean script descendants, while not mucking up
    >>Canaanite which is already encoded in Unicode, albeit somewhat
    >>"prematurely", or "misnamed", as Hebrew.
    >>
    >Can we live cosmetic issues like the name out of it? OK, so "Hebrew" is
    >really "Jewish Aramaic," and it's ironic that we're working on encoding
    >a Samaritan block distinct from the Hebrew block. Lots of things are
    >badly named, and bad names sometimes stick. But naming issues like this
    >(what do we name this block? That name is a bad choice...) are
    >irrelevant to the discussion. They just make the discussions longer,
    >but don't affect the validity of anything. If it makes you feel better,
    >pretend that the blocks are named things like U+05D0, and so are the
    >letters.

    You're missing my point. I don't really care that it's called Hebrew; but
    I suspect that OTHERS do and that is one motivation (maybe even a
    subconscious one) behind a separate Phoenician proposal.

    Respectfully,

    Dean A. Snyder

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