We have been through this before.

Under what definition of "writing" is Blissymbolics a writing system?

It may be a language that operates exclusively in a visual medium, but it isn't a writing system.

What language does it encode if it's a writing system?
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...



----- Original Message ----
From: Michael Everson <everson@...>
To: qalam@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 8:12:39 AM
Subject: Re: FW: [M_L] Re: Languages with writing systems?

At 04:22 -0700 2006-10-11, Peter T. Daniels wrote:

>Blissymbolics isn't a writing system.

Of course it is. It is a true ideographic writing system, used as the
primary language by thousands of non-speaking people. It is a
language; it has its own grammar. And it is written: it uses a large
set of base characters and a small set of grammatical combining marks
to form words and sentences. It has dictionaries. Its speakers write
poetry in it (with visual puns sometimes, as in some Chinese poetry).
--
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype .com



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