----- Message d'origine ----- De: "Michael Everson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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 S�tterlin 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.
