Re: dialects vs separate languages

From: Peter T. Daniels (grammatim_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: 08/22/04 

Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 19:00:44 GMT

Brian M. Scott wrote:
>
> On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 11:50:11 GMT, "Peter T. Daniels"
> <grammatim@worldnet.att.net> wrote in
> <news:41288873.1968@worldnet.att.net> in sci.lang:
>
> > Ruud Harmsen wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> >> http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Peter_T._Daniels
>
> >> (I am aware any serious reply is wasted on Jason, but I'll try
> >> anyway).
>
> > I made the mistake of clicking the link and got a screenful of html
> > garbage. What is this?
>
> The Wikipedia stub that was mentioned a few weeks ago:
>
> Peter T. Daniels
>
> Peter T. Daniels is a scholar of writing systems. He is
> notable for being co-editor (with William Bright) of the
> book The World's Writing Systems (1996), and coining
> the terms abjad (an "alphabet" with no vowel letters)
> and abugida (a system partly alphabetic, partly
> syllabic).
>
> This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by
> expanding it.
>
> (You really might consider moving to a newer browser.)

I cut and pasted it to Netscape 4.07 and saw it.

You might explain to Dimwitri about newsgroups. 

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Peter T. Daniels                       grammatim@att.net

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