Re: Phoenician

[Mark E. Shoulson]

Oh, this is ridiculous.  "They're the same script."  It's shown they're 
not.  "Scholars don't want it."  It's shown they do.  "Then ask more 
scholars."  That way lieth madness; you can always say the *next* people 
we talk to will *really* put us in our place...  There's always some 
further problem you can find as each successive one is disproven.  But 
that's true with anything.

It's reasonable to assume that Paul Cowie and Deborah Anderson speak not 
only for themselves, as they do not work in a vacuum and refer to 
corresponding with colleagues.

We might as well let things keep going and see what, if any, responses 
Deborah Anderson got from her call for reaction.  The wheels of Unicode 
turn plenty slow, from what I've seen, so there should be time to gauge 
response before it comes to vote (or maybe I'm wrong; I don't pay 
attention to schedules).

~mark

E. Keown wrote:

        Elaine Keown
        Tucson
Hi,

 

See posts by Deborah Anderson and Paul James Cowie. 
Is that enough?  Or 
are they not expert enough or something?
   

Let's say there are 400 epigraphers in the world. 
How many votes does one need to get a genuine sense of
community opinion?  

I don't know, but I don't think 3 is enough......
Elaine