Peter T. Daniels wrote:

>
> * Your message of Wednesday morning was not
> posted until Saturday afternoon. *

For some reason, I seem to be on moderated status.
I don't know why since I have not participated in the
acrimonious debates which characterized this list
at times in the past.


"Writing is a system of more or less permanent marks
used to represent an utterance in such a way that it
can be recovered more or less exactly without the
intervention of the utterer." --Daniels, WWS

I see. So a "writing system" can only record spoken
speech.

--Ph. D.