What other kind of speech is there?

Are you of the opinion that a stretch of signed language isn't an utterance? What, then, would you call it, and what would you suggest as a cover term for both utterances and the signed equivalents?

Your message of Saturday night was not posted until Wednesday afternoon.
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...



----- Original Message ----
From: Ph.D. <phil@...>
To: qalam@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2006 11:39:25 PM
Subject: Re: What is a "writing system"? Re: FW: [M_L] Re: Languages with writing systems?

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.




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