Discussion: Our ethical responsibility

[Michael Everson]

At 21:08 +0100 2006-12-13, Johanna Laakso wrote:

>after forwarding the announcement of Angela Marcantonio's new book in
>Hungary and discussing the recent "developments" by e-mail with a few
>colleagues, I have finally decided to break the silence.

I don't know what this book is or what it purports to say.

>Doesn't Angela Marcantonio realize that her 
>books are being marketed in Hungary together 
>with works painstakingly "proving" that Jesus 
>was not a Jew (new edition of a work from 1936, 
>issued by the same "Magyar Ház" publishing house 
>which published Marcantonio's previous monograph 
>-- http://hetilap.hetek.hu/index.php?cikk=6220 
>), on homepages proclaiming that the Old 
>Hungarian Runic script was not made by human 
>beings but devised in heaven ( 
>http://www.hun-idea.com/ > Rovásírás)?

I've never heard this before, and I don't read 
Hungarian... but I'm supposed to help to encode 
Rovásírás in Unicode in 2007 or 2008 and I assure 
you I would not pay any attention to anything 
that was not based in actual history and 
linguistics.
-- 
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com

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