Mark E. Shoulson wrote at 10:41 PM on Saturday, May 22, 2004: >And not a single Hebrew-reader I spoke to, >native or not, could even conceive of Paleo-Hebrew being a font-variant >of Hebrew. They found the proposition laughable.
I'm a Hebrew reader, and I consider it a font change. I would like to see the evidence to back your assessment. I'm guessing none of your test subjects have read Paleo-Hebrew texts, like the Dead Sea scroll ones. If not, how can they make judgements on this issue? It would be like testing readers of Roman German who had never read Fraktur - they wouldn't recognize it as a font change either (which it is, of course, in Unicode). Respectfully, Dean A. Snyder Assistant Research Scholar Manager, Digital Hammurabi Project Computer Science Department Whiting School of Engineering 218C New Engineering Building 3400 North Charles Street Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland, USA 21218 office: 410 516-6850 cell: 717 817-4897 www.jhu.edu/digitalhammurabi
