"Doug Ewell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:Well, yes. But more specifically why was the unification ill-advised for Peter Kirk in the case of Coptic and would not be in the case of Phoenician. Unless, of course, one justs follows the trend and says Coptic unification was ill-avised because it has been disunified. Somehow, I feel I should not have asked since the argument often seems to be, in the case of neighbouring historical scripts, genealogy and user community feeling (as interpreted by the proposers).
Peter Kirk <peterkirk at qaya dot org> wrote:
Because each such case has to be judged on its individual merits,Nobody, neither Michael nor anyone else, ever advocates such a rule.
according to proper justification and user requirements. There can be
no hard rules like "always split" or "always join".
But that's what Patrick implied when he asked how you support the Hebrew/Phoencian
unification and the Coptic/Greek unification, that such a rule exists.
P. A.
