Re: functional classification of writing systems

Peter T. Daniels wrote:

> I won't be wasting any more money on his books.

OK, opinion noted down. :-)

> Is there any more substance in that one than in
> the earlier ones?

I don't know: that's the fist and only book by Harris I have read.
Basically, I was asking whether there is any more substance in his other
books...

> Is that the translation of the big French book
> that came out before the little English one?

The stated original title is in English ("Rethinking Writing"), but the
forewords says it is the reorganization of an essay in French, which was
basically the transcription of a series of seminars at the Sorbonne.

_ Marco