Re: Response to Everson Phoenician and why June 7?

From: Mark E. Shoulson (mark@kli.org)
Date: Fri May 21 2004 - 16:48:29 CDT

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    Doug Ewell wrote:

    >Dean Snyder <dean dot snyder at jhu dot edu> wrote:
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    >>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.
    >>
    >>
    >
    >I doubt anyone's this badly snowed by the naming conventions. I suspect
    >that those who want to encode Phoenician separately from Hebrew are
    >motivated by the belief that they are different scripts.
    >
    It is Dean Snyder who keeps harping on the fitness or non-fitness of the
    names, nobody else. If it's an issue, it is only because he keeps
    trying to make it one. I don't care if the script was invented by Martians.

    ~mark

    P.S. Is Martian roadmapped?

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