tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59572622009-11-08T20:31:23.159+01:00QuillPunditQuillPundit is a weblog, or blog, about script, writing, alphabets, letters and symbols.Andis Kaulinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09742368515824957724a1ndiskaulins@aol.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5957262.post-1141078879384251662006-02-27T23:20:00.000+01:002006-02-27T23:21:19.393+01:00Quill on GoogleWe are doing some checking of Google today and found that Quill gives 10 million hits. Not bad for what is basically an outdated word.Andis Kaulinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09742368515824957724a1ndiskaulins@aol.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5957262.post-1067876383863767132003-11-03T17:19:00.000+01:002005-08-20T15:11:00.750+02:00Allegedly undeciphered scripts - Easter Island - Etruscan Bronze Liver of Piacenza - Phaistos DiskALLEGEDLY UNDECIPHERED SCRIPTSThe only criticism that we have of Ager's website (see our previous blog posting concerning Omniglot.com) is that it is not complete in its selection of links regarding alleged decipherments of so-called undeciphered scripts - which in fact may already be deciphered for all we know, as was the case for the Maya Glyphs.THE EXAMPLE OF THE MAYA GLYPHSThe Maya glyphs hadAndis Kaulinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09742368515824957724a1ndiskaulins@aol.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5957262.post-1067869360228235832003-11-03T15:22:00.000+01:002003-11-03T15:52:42.396+01:00Omniglot.com - Omniglot - a guide to written languageOMNIGLOT.COM
Omniglot - a guide to written language is a superb beautifully done website by Simon Ager on script and writing systems.
Its main menu entries are:
What is writing?
Alphabetic writing systems
Syllabic writing systems
Logographic writing systems
Undeciphered writing systems
which links to a discussion of alleged decipherments of the Phaistos Disk, including LexiLine, which is our Andis Kaulinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09742368515824957724a1ndiskaulins@aol.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5957262.post-1067647574880761372003-11-01T01:46:00.000+01:002003-11-01T01:48:28.023+01:00Origins of Writing
One view of the origins of writing is found at LexiLine, where it is written as follows:
THE GENERAL STAGES OF WRITING DEVELOPMENT
The scholar Ignace Gelb4 distinguished FOUR stages in the evolutionary history of human writing systems.
The first stage was picture writing, in which the picture expressed an idea or concept directly, for example, a picture of a river, lake, pool or well to giveAndis Kaulinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09742368515824957724a1ndiskaulins@aol.com0