----- Message d'origine ----- De: "Patrick Andries" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > ----- 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 ? Some people having enquired about what the S�tterlin 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.
