> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of John Hudson
> > No Georgian can read Nuskhuri without a key. I maintain that no Hebrew > > reader can read Phoenician without a key. I maintain that it is > > completely unacceptable to represent Yiddish text in a Phoenician font > > and have anyone recognize it at all. > > But no one is going to do that. No one is talking about doing that. This > is a complete > irrelevancy. Michael's argument here is based on the premise that if the communities that use script A cannot readily interpret text in their language when written with a written variety (and distinct-script candidate) B, then B is distinct from A. It *is*, IMO, a valid consideration, but it alone isn't a sufficient criterion. Note, for instance, that one could apply that argument to try to justify a Latin cipher. Peter Constable
