Re: if vs. when vs. and: style question

[Joost Kremers]

Gian Uberto Lauri wrote:
> Emanuel Berg writes:
> > Why do you think mankind abandoned the iconographic
> > baby-steps of the old Sumerians?
>
> There is a remarkable number of people that still uses ideograms.

Besides, even the old Sumerians didn't use just ideograms. The script
was to a large part syllabic, with characters representing syllables
(i.e., phonological values, though more than one per character).

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