Re: Quasi-logographic

--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@...>
wrote:

> suzmccarth wrote:
> >
> > --- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@...>
> > wrote:
> > > suzmccarth, you are using linguistics terminology in

educationist

> > > contexts. No one else here is an educationist ...

So it seems. Scripts without literacy are like bicycles without
wheels.

> > morphophonemic system - it represents both sound and meaning
>
> This is, to use a technical term, bullshit.

I cut and pasted those definitions from online articles. Not my
invention. There seem to be two different uses for the word.
However, I'll abandon it for now. It certainly doesn't seem worth
arguing about.

>
> 'it represents both sound and meaning' "What is a logographic

writing

> system, Alex?"

???

> A "morphophonemic system," if you mean a sort of writing system,

would

> be one like English's, where morphemes retain their spelling even

when

> their pronunciation changes: serene/serenity, divine/divinity,
> photograph/photography, read/read.
> --
> Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...