suzmccarth wrote:

>
> --- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@...>
> wrote:
> > suzmccarth wrote:
> >
> > > "From A Dissertation on the Nature and Character of the Chinese
> > > System of Writing, by Peter S. Du Ponceau. The book was published in
> > > 1838 as volume 2 of the Transactions of the Historical and Literary
> > > Committee of the American Philosophical Society. For comments on
> > > this work, see DeFrancis (1984)."
> >
> > --that would be the book. And probably where I first heard about it.
> > IIRC I've only seen it in French.
>
> Surely the original is in English. In any case interesting -
> DuPonceau must have read Champollion, the younger's, dissertation.

Pierre Etienne DuPonceau came to America as an aide to Lafayette, and
stayed.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...