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Re: A book report...

From:Jefferson Wilson <jeffwilson63@...>
Date:Sunday, January 1, 2006, 9:32
Paul Bennett wrote:

> a 1958 first edition of _The Decipherment Of Linear B_ by > John Chadwick. It's a slimish paperback, the size of any normal > paperback novel, more or less, with some light creasing on the spine, a > library code or some other catalog code on a small sticker on the spine > (the code is "489", does that mean anything to anyone?)
489 is the Dewey Decimal Code for "Other Hellenic languages" And since this _is_ conlang, here's the entire 400's (Language): 400 Language 401 Philosophy & theory 402 Miscellany 403 Dictionaries & encyclopedias 404 Special topics 405 Serial publications 406 Organizations & management 407 Education, research, related topics 408 With respect to kinds of persons 409 Geographical & persons treatment 410 Linguistics 411 Writing systems 412 Etymology 413 Dictionaries 414 Phonology 415 Structural systems (Grammar) 416 Not assigned or no longer used 417 Dialectology & historical linguistics 418 Standard usage Applied linguistics 419 Verbal language not spoken or written 420 English & Old English 421 English writing system & phonology 422 English etymology 423 English dictionaries 424 Not assigned or no longer used 425 English grammar 426 Not assigned or no longer used 427 English language variations 428 Standard English usage 429 Old English (Anglo-Saxon) 430 Germanic languages German 431 German writing system & phonology 432 German etymology 433 German dictionaries 434 Not assigned or no longer used 435 German grammar 436 Not assigned or no longer used 437 German language variations 438 Standard German usage 439 Other Germanic languages 440 Romance languages French 441 French writing system & phonology 442 French etymology 443 French dictionaries 444 Not assigned or no longer used 445 French grammar 446 Not assigned or no longer used 447 French language variations 448 Standard French usage 449 Provencal & Catalan 450 Italian, Romanian, Rhaeto-Romantic 451 Italian writing system & phonology 452 Italian etymology 453 Italian dictionaries 454 Not assigned or no longer used 455 Italian grammar 456 Not assigned or no longer used 457 Italian language variations 458 Standard Italian usage 459 Romanian & Rhaeto-Romanic 460 Spanish & Portugese languages 461 Spanish writing system & phonology 462 Spanish etymology 463 Spanish dictionaries 464 Not assigned or no longer used 465 Spanish grammar 466 Not assigned or no longer used 467 Spanish language variations 468 Standard Spanish usage 469 Portugese 470 Italic Latin 471 Classical Latin writing & phonology 472 Classical Latin etymology & phonology 473 Classical Latin dictionaries 474 Not assigned or no longer used 475 Classical Latin grammar 476 Not assigned or no longer used 477 Old, Postclassical, Vulgar Latin 478 Classical Latin usage 479 Other Italic languages 480 Hellenic languages Classical Greek 481 Classical Greek writing & phonology 482 Classical Greek etymology 483 Classical Greek dictionaries 484 Not assigned or no longer used 485 Classical Greek grammar 486 Not assigned or no longer used 487 Preclassical & postclassical Greek 488 Classical Greek usage 489 Other Hellenic languages 490 Other languages 491 East Indo-European & Celtic languages 492 Afro-Asiatic languages Semitic 493 Non-Semitic Afro-Asiatic languages 494 Ural-Altaic, Paleosiberian, Dravidian 495 Languages of East & Southeast Asia 496 African languages 497 North American native languages 498 South American native languages 499 Miscellaneous languages (Easy to tell the system was developed in the early 1800's by a pan-European isn't it?) -- Jefferson http://www.picotech.net/~jeff_wilson63/myths/

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