Re: The write direction (was: Interesting Brain/Language Nugget of Info)
| From: | Boudewijn Rempt <bsarempt@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, June 27, 1999, 17:37 |
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On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, Kristian Jensen wrote:
> Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> >I am particularly fond of scripts and it has always annoyed me that
> >the scripts are so little studied academically - it has taken years
> >since Jensen to appear anything modern, like Daniels.
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> Jensen? Who... me? ;-)
>
No, a certain Hans:
Jensen, Hans. 1970. Sign, Symbol and Script. London: Allen and Unwin.
It's a large book with good plates, but the discussion is dated - but not
as dated as it would have been had the field shown the progress you might
have expected in nearly forty years!
Boudewijn Rempt | http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt