Re: TDC Type Salon: Conversation with John D. Berry & Saki Mafundik

From: John Cowan
Message: 3117
Date: 2004-07-14

Don Osborn scripsit:

> I pass on the following item in which Saki Mafundikwa offers some
> thoughts on the nature of writing in case they may be of interest.
> The publisher of his book gave me the pointer to the URL
> http://www.markbattypublisher.com/servlet/article_view?
> number=5003 ... DZO

Well, he has a broad view of writing if it includes face painting!
Writing is generally understood to be the communication of linguistic
material in visual form, which excludes most of his examples (they
communicate, but what is communicated is not linguistic).

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