> (Consider trying to read something like ancient Hebrew in the original, written without spaces, consonants, punctuation, or lower vs uppercase - never mind it

> (Consider trying to read something like ancient Hebrew in the original, written without spaces, consonants, punctuation, or lower vs uppercase - never mind italics or bolds! Semitic languages are legible without vowels. Modern Hebrew... not so much, due to its great influence from Standard Average European. This is a major problem in Israel today (people often depend on the English [really I should say Latin] transliteration to read Hebrew place names) and many Israeli linguists are advocating just switching to the Latin script. Which as a former student of Hebrew I support.