Re: ancient name of Zeus

Franz Gnaedinger wrote:

With scientific
anthologies, such as the book The World's Writing Systems,
edited by you and William Bright, I look up the first chapter,
where I find the scientific zeitgeist represented in a similar
way. I read the first pages of your book, and found them
wanting. You leave out the most interesting chapters of early
language and notification,

The book is not about language, and I don't know what "notification" is.

rounding it all off, in the way of an
editor obliged to his publishing house and the mainstream,

The publisher took no interest whatsoever in the content, besides the
number of words they were obliged to pay for (which in most cases bore
little relation to the number of words written or published).

cutting off what doesn't fit into your understanding, rounding
edges, polishing corners, filling gaps. Not my way of looking
at subject matters.

We tried to make the book comprehensive. Gaps would be unwelcome.

Your book is very fine, but the first pages are the same as
the last chapters in those art history anthologies: not to be
taken seriously, certainly not the last word.
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@xxxxxxx
.

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