suzmccarth wrote:

>
> --- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@...>
> wrote:
> > You cannot make Blissymbolics into a writing system by arguing that
> > it's a language.
> >
> > It may indeed be a language, a language with exclusively visual form,
> > but by that very fact it _is not_ a writing system.
> >
> > Unless you use a definition of "writing system" that's different from
> > any definition that's ever appeared in the literature.
> >
> > That's why I keep asking what you mean by "writing system."
>
> Maybe a simpler definition of writing system is needed. What do you
> think of this? "A writing system is a pairing of a script and a
> language." Do you know whose expression this is? It sounds like
> something Joshua Fishman might have said.

Then you have to define "script."

But this can't be Michael's definition either.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...