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James Womack Date: Wed Mar 15, 2000 10:34 am Subject: Re: The View from Ringside | |
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Is there any reason my header in this? Curious cause all the quote is from Val and one assumes it had something to do with what I said which is not in evidence here. Trevor Jenkins wrote: > > On Tuesday, 14 March, 2000 09:49:18, James Womack > wrote: > > > Valerie Sutton wrote: > > > >> Let me give you an example. What does the word "English" mean? > >> > >> 1. a bunch of sounds that express concepts, uttered by groups of > >> people in the western world > >> 2. the order of those concepts in a sentence > >> 3. how the sounds change depending on past and present tense!! > > Valerie forgot the most important one---an ethnic group of people living in > the geo-political area known as England. > > Then the definition in 1. is slightly wrong in that it is only the language > spoken in the aforementioned geo-political area. Pretender languages have to > be prefixed with the name of the geo-political area in which that dialect is > used, e.g. American English, Australian English. > > >> So SignWriting is not language....just as a, b and c are not - and > >> placing German words in English order would not be writing > >> English...would it? > > SignWriting is no more a lanaguage than is the Roman alphabet a language. > The two of are nothing more than an agreed set of orthographic rules for > transcribing a language. > > Exercise for the reader. Where do the smileys belong. :-) > > Regards, Trevor > > British Sign Language is not inarticulate handwaving; it's a living > language. So recognise it now. > > -- > > <>< Re: deemed! -- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Squirrel wisdom: (\__/) .~ ~.)) /O O ./ .' {O__, \ { Photons have mass!? I didn't know / . . ) they were Catholic! |-| '-' \ ( _( )_.' https://www.education.eku.edu/Sed/faculty/womack/default.htm |
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