Re: How did the Semitic Alphabet become the Greek Alphabet so quickly?

On Dec 14, 11:17 am, Jack Linthicum <jacklinthi...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

As one of my collegaues once observed, asking questions is not a way
to answer questions. Please actually look at the various Greek
alphabets and the Phoenician next to each other. The presentations
are different.

I gather Socrates wasn't your colleague.

http://www.ancientscripts.com/greek.html

1. Those are not depictions of the lettershapes in the inscriptions.
Those are idealizations made to look like modern typefaces.

2. If you are similarly looking at Phoenician typefaces, of course you
will think they look somewhat different.

Forget the rest, I wanted an answer not an interrogation. Take your
knowledgeable authority and live with it.

Have you never heard that there are no simple answers in history?

Especially when there are as few data available as in this case?

Why don't you tell me what you found unsatisfactory about my earlier
replies.
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