On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 18:41, Moshe Zadka wrote: > > You are right. My point is that diversity is part of humanity, and even > > though in many cases it doesn't make sense from a practical point of > > view, it still continues to exist, because we as people like it that > > way: practicality is not our only criterion. > > I don't see any reason to use a non-practical alphabet.
You don't need a reason to use it, because you already do. At this point you need a reason to *stop* using it. Apparently, the fact that it doesn't OCR well and the rest of the things you mentioned are more important to you than all the cultural and historical baggage that it carries, so much that you are willing to just dispose of that. That's the point I disagree upon. I suppose we can agree to disagree about this issue and close it at that. > > And as much deficiencies as > > you can find in the Hebrew language / alphabet, you cannot argue that it > > does not work -- it's spoken by millions of people daily, and wonderful > > books, poetry and plays have been written in it. > > Billions of people use Windows daily to create wonderful things, yet > we still claim they should move to Linux. If Windows does their job fine, they shouldn't. There's no practical value in that -- you see, now you're going against your own principles. :-) -- Alex Shnitman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://alexsh.hectic.net/ UIN 188956 PGP 0xEC5D619D / E1 F2 7B 6C A0 31 80 28 63 B8 02 BA 65 C7 8B BA ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
