Synchronicity in Writing Systems
My somewhat-regular blog-reading rounds found
Dan Sugalski squawking about
Kim B's mention of a couple of pages about
writing systems at http://scripts.sil.org/ ,
and a nice-looking example of a
a Mongolian script.
Meanwhile,
Charles "Fishbowl" mentioned
A Brief History of Writing,
as seen via
dewhitton.
One of my prized possessions is a copy of
Albertine Gaur's
A History of Writing, which includes an 11-page
dictionary of scripts (one-line examples from each of
a few hundred scripts). A present from my mother a
few years ago. It "Traces the origins and
development of writing, explains how scholars decipher
ancient languages, and discusses social attitudes
towards literacy and writing".
If I had an "isbn.nu" gift list, I'd populate it with
a couple other books by the same author:
- A History of Calligraphy (Cross River Press, 1995);
- Signs Symbols and Icons: Pre-History to the Computer Age
(co-author Rosemary Sassoon; 1997)
Oh, and on my gift list, I would also have to add:
"the time to read them". :-(
11:58:38 PM
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