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Bill Reese Date: Thu Jan 7, 1999 5:27 am Subject: Re: bye-bye lingual | ||||||||||||||||
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Joe - You are saying that how you write it down has nothing to do with the language? Ok, I see your point. We can't be bilingual by knowing the language, vocal or visual, and also the written system that represents this language. The written system, being a representation of the language, is not the language itself anymore than an actor is the character in a play. The only exception to this would be a written system that is not a representation of either a vocal or a visual language. I don't know of any so I would suppose that's a moot point. But I suppose you would agree that signwriting is not a different "type" of writing, as you stated before, but, rather, a writing system similar to Kanji? | ||||||||||||||||
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