Thursday, June 17, 2010

Best lawsuit ever

The lawsuit described below occurred in 1822, and settled around the question of whether or not Blackwood's Magazine libeled a Professor Leslie by saying he was ignorant of Hebrew.




I gather it did not go so well for Blackwood's, for here is there reaction after the trial:


7 comments:

  1. After reading Blackwood's unapologetic response, you have to wonder if the professor turned around and sued the magazine again.

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  2. He wanted to, but he was so busy setting up his websites and pestering newsgroups. :-)

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  3. Huh? What's this about the "Hebrew" vs. "Phoenician" alphabet containing only 22 letters? Each of the two scripts contains the identical 22 graphemes, albeit with different forms.

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  4. Square Hebrew has five final forms, making a total of 27.

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  5. S. --

    Ah, OK. So he was referring to those five allographs (which are not actually separate graphemes).

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  6. The questions are whether he did in fact look like a parrot, and whether it is an insult to say so.

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