Re: Branch of English or a Separate Language?

From: Peter T. Daniels (grammatim_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: 09/10/04 

Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 13:50:46 GMT

Rex F. May wrote:
>
> in article 41419B3B.2388@worldnet.att.net, Peter T. Daniels at
> grammatim@worldnet.att.net wrote on 9/10/04 6:17 AM:
>
> > Good grief. Did you fall for one of those books that makes pictures out
> > of characters?
>
> Sounds like many of us have been misled, Peter. Set us straigh!

I don't know what pictograms underlie the character he was talking
about, but they weren't what he said they were.

Many books on "learning" a handful of characters try to make pictures
out of their present forms that relate to their present meaning, and
these pictures -- since they usually don't even respect the phonetic vs.
radical components -- have nothing to do with their origin. 

-- 
Peter T. Daniels                       grammatim@att.net

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