From: Patrick Andries (Patrick.Andries@xcential.com)
Date: Sat Dec 27 2003 - 22:17:28 EST
----- Message d'origine -----
De: "Patrick Andries" <Patrick.Andries@xcential.com>
>
> ----- Message d'origine -----
> 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 ?
Some people having enquired about what the Sütterlin letters could
correspond to (and some having mistakenly identified several), I have
written the document in a different « script ».
http://pages.infinit.net/hapax/images/SuetterlinEnAnglaise.jpg
I wonder how many letterforms could be considered as different. If the first
three words (»Bin noch munter«) are anything to go by, I would say quite a
lot : B, c, h, u, t, e, r with n deceivingly close to e to the untrained
eye.
P. A.
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Sat Dec 27 2003 - 22:56:23 EST
