From: Patrick Andries (Patrick.Andries@xcential.com)
Date: Fri Dec 26 2003 - 17:58:29 EST
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De: "Michael Everson" <everson@evertype.com>
At 17:46 +0000 2003-12-26, Christopher John Fynn wrote:
>>(Though the Roman style & Fraktur style of Latin script are probably more
>>different from each other as some of the separately encoded Indic
>>scripts [e.g. Kannada / Telugu])
> Sorry, Chris, this is unsubstantiated speculation, and it doesn't
> happen to be true.
>
> In 1997, I showed some comparisons between Coptic, Greek, Cyrillic,
> and Gothic showing that all of them but Greek were similar enough to
> be read with a minimum of training and practice.
Very probable, but how did you measure those distances and the training and
practice necessary ?
> I revised this a bit
> in 2001: http://www.evertype.com/standards/cy/coptic.html. German,
> English, and Irish can all be read with similarly low learning curve
> whether the script is Fraktur or Gaelic; the number of letterforms
> which differ is small.
Interesting, I wonder if you included Sütterlin in your study.
http://pages.infinit.net/hapax/images/suetterlin.jpg
To the average litterate reader of the Latin script and not scholars like
Everson : what letters are written ?
P. A.
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