Re: Number of writing systems

Michael Everson wrote:

>
> At 13:40 -0400 2005-09-16, Peter T. Daniels wrote:
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> > > >| Nor Blissymbolics.
> > > >
> > > >Yep.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > Should it be?
> >
> >By my definition, no. (See my review of Rogers's textbook, posted here
> >recently.)
>
> Blissymbolics is certainly a writing system, and I know people who
> are literate in it and in no other writing system.

Define "writing system." Since it isn't a scheme for recording
utterances in such a way that they can be recovered without the
intervention of the utterer, it's not writing.

It's said to be useful for people who are unable to use conventional
writing systems, but they're not recording language with it.

> I have not seen Peter's review. When was it written?

The last "Date Modified" on the file is 10/10/04.

> >NB ita has no caps -- just bigger forms of the letters.
>
> Those would be the capital forms, then, wouldn't they?

No, they're just bigger versions of the only shapes the letters have.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...