Re: Vinca script, cross bar angle - Ki Ri Ke

Brian M. Scott wrote:

On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 11:57:53 GMT, "Peter T. Daniels"
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Brian M. Scott wrote:

On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 21:49:21 GMT, "Peter T. Daniels"
<grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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Holly wrote:

[...]

http://www.answers.com/topic/old-european-script

I don't know who "answers.com" may be (I don't suppose the entry is
signed, is it?), but it clearly hasn't _read_ Gimbutas's work (or it's
using some lay definition of writing that was not used by Gimbutas or by
any other scholar).

The present version was written by Michael Everson, who says
that he was her research assistant for two years at UCLA.
It's a great improvement on the previous version, which, as
he noted, 'was not very accurate'. His 'suggesting that
they might either be the writing system for an Old European
language, or, more probably, a kind of "pre-writing"
symbolic system' is a great improvement on the previous
version's 'claiming them to be the writing system for a
hypothetical Old European language'.

[...]

On the writing systems list, Michael Everson came very close to
admitting that he was the Unicode professional who so badly screwed up
the definitions of abjad and abugida in its glossary. He's very good at
creating exotic fonts, but nothing he says about writing systems theory
is reliable.

Which coheres nicely with the posted criticism of Gimbutas as jumping to
conclusions without going into the evidence and arguments for them.

Except that Everson is on record as defending her
scholarship and bringing the article in question into better
agreement with the facts.

Uncomprehendingly.

He's said his interest is in getting as many scripts into Unicode as
possible, with the details being unimportant frills that only scholars
worry about. (Look at the mess they've made of the ancient Semitic
group.)
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@xxxxxxx
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