Re: Sounds, Symbols, and Spellings

suzmccarth wrote:

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

> > It's a little, but expensive, Penguin.
>
> Thank you. I appreciate this although it has little to do with
> writing systems.

Eh? How does comparative orthography have "little to do" with writing
systems?

> I must say that I am thoroughly enjoying your book but sincerely
> regret that when it stimulates my interest in how the script is
> keyboarded you find that inapropriate.

Do you think Richard Sproat's main criticism, that the last chapter
didn't include a discussion of the computer technology available in the
early 1990s, is valid?

<removing interesting points>
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...