Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Kevin Riley <klriley AT alphalink.com.au>]

Old English orthography was standardised to a large degree before the 
Norman conquest.  Greek orthography was standardised enough that we 
often cannot tell where a Greek document was written just by looking at 
the spelling.  That applies also to linear B Greek.  Standard usage 
seems to have been taught in schools ever since there were schools.  
That there were periods when spelling became more chaotic does not 
change the fact that in many periods there was a remarkable degree of 
standardization given the conditions under which scribes worked.

Kevin Riley

On 24/05/2010 2:00 AM, s.a.breyer wrote:
> > > Karl: "the art of writing words with the proper letters according to
> > >        
> standard usage" *** For English, this did not occur until the 19th
> century.
>
> Not so. English orthography was largely standardized by 1700, although
> some of those standards were changed over the next 200 years.
>
>    
> > > Karl: when you cite data that is not online, you need to provide
> > >        
> access for that data that's not online.
>
> Not so. This amounts to a demand that your interlocutors commit
> copyright violations which would expose them to substantial penalties in
> order to spare you inconvenience.
>
> And by extension it amounts to a rejection of any standard scholarly
> reference work. Before posting my first assertion, respecting English
> orthography, I checked it against a quick glance at Weales' diplomatic
> edition of the plays of William Wycherly. Am I obliged to provide you a
> link to an online version, which you can perfectly easily look up for
> yourself? And when you find it will you repudiate it because Google
> Books provides only a "snippet" view? If I Fedex you my copy will you
> complain that it's merely hardcopy and not searchable?
>
>
> Stoney Breyer
>
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