[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > My grandparents could read Fraktur fluently, but they are all dead. > > So is Fraktur. > > You fail to reveal whether you yourself read it fluently.
I teach cryptography and enjoy reading orders of magnitude more obscure things than Fraktur, therefore I'm hardly a representative example. Yes, I can decipher it if necessary and should it really become necessary, my brain would with time surely allocate enough neural resources to recognising these glyphs so that I would become a fluent reader after a few hours or days of exercise, just like with pretty much any form of unusual communication. Homo sapiens have highly adaptible communication ports! (At least up to ~15 years of age, judging from the population of Klingon speakers ...) Markus -- Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/> -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
