Re: Phaistos Disk side B
From: Des Small (des.small_at_bristol.ac.uk)
Date: 11/18/04
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Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 14:35:02 GMT
"Dylan Sung" <dylanwhs.tsktsktsk@pacific.net.hk> writes:
[...]
>
> As I don't speak french or read it (last time was about 20 years ago as a
> school boy), it wouldn't be of much use to me. Given the fact that majority
> of websites on the net are in English,
This may well be false by now - do you have recent figures?
> then the proportion of people searching for JF's book and being able
> to understand it, grows less. Not only is his sales affected by the
> language the book is written in, even a big bookstore like Amazon
> does not stock it,
Those of us with a thirst for the Frenchy-French generally quench it
at the Frencher of the Amazons:
<http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/2738477038/> says 2 or 3 weeks,
which is a drop in the ocean of how long I, for one, am prepared to
wait for Faucounau's book.
[...]
Des
will warm himself laughing at it on chilly days in Hell
-- "[T]he structural trend in linguistics which took root with the International Congresses of the twenties and early thirties [...] had close and effective connections with phenomenology in its Husserlian and Hegelian versions." -- Roman Jakobson
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