Sorry, I promised I would stay out of this thread and all its spawn, but since this isn't about Hebrew vs. Phoenician OR Fraktur vs. Antiqua...
Peter Kirk <peterkirk at qaya dot org> wrote: > Well, I understand this as it is partly true of English as well. But > surely German newspapers, like English language ones, regularly use > upper case only in headlines? This implies that readers are expected > to read upper case MORE easily than lower case, at least for short > texts like headlines. I'm sure it's not true for all newspapers in all Latin-script cultures, but in most of the newspapers I see, the trend over the last 50 years has definitely been *away* from all-caps headlines. Most headlines tend to be in Title Caps or Sentence caps. (The front page of the New York Times, with its double- or triple-decked top-story headline in a relatively small point size, is often an exception.) As a former journalist and copy editor (in college) I tend to notice such things. OK, I'll zip it now. -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
