Re: IMLD, 2/21/05: Braille & sign languages

suzmccarth wrote:

>
> --- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, Andrew Dunbar
> <hippietrail@...> wrote:
> > --- suzmccarth <suzmccarth@...> wrote:
> > >
> > > --- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Peter T. Daniels"
> > > <grammatim@...> wrote:
>
> > > > I don't know of any evidence for blind people
> > > > reading cuneiform, but there's no reason they
> > > > couldn't have.
> > >
> > > I have been completely unaware of a raised cuneifrom
> > > script. How was it created?
> >
> > Umm not raised but depressed would also be tactile
> > enough to read with fingers, though surely with quite
> > a bit more difficulty.
>
> Yes, I have indeed heard about cuneiform as a depressed
> system. However I am not aware that the blind people read
> depressed systems.

(a) Does that mean it's never been tried?

(b) Have you ever seen a cuneiform tablet?

(c) Can you _possibly_ imagine that other cultures are not the same as
yours?
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...