suzmccarth wrote:

>
> --- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@...>
> wrote:
> > suzmccarth wrote:
> >
> > > So Vico didn't know about syllabic systems but he knew that it
> > > should be a tripartite chronological progression.
> >
> > "Should"?????? I reiterate, what's the big deal about the number 3?
>
> I don't know. You tell me. You said that I would be going back more
> than a century if I wanted to have a dual system and not a
> tripartite system. All I am saying is that this didn't begin in the
> 1880's. Maybe it was refined then.

No, suz. I said you would be going back more than a century if you
rejected Isaac Taylor's (1883) system, which was the basis of all study
of writing systems until mine was presented in 1988 and published in
1990.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...