• PTD -- (Peter T. Daniels) -- Why did he stop posting in AUE, Sci.Lang ?

    From HenHanna@NewsGrouper@user4055@newsgrouper.org.invalid to rec.puzzles,sci.lang,alt.usage.english on Thu Jan 8 19:11:47 2026
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    iirc... Sometime in mid 2025 PTD did a presentation at
    a workshop at UCB (Berkeley)


    Why did he stop posting in AUE, Sci.Lang ? --- Puzzling!

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    stats 2025


    HenHanna 55+37= 92 -- Wow... So I'm Number 1. (for starting new threads)

    but in terms of starting threads that got lots of responses, i'm far behind Occam. Hibou, PeterM, Tony Cooper, ......


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    2 | navi | 63 | 112 | 152,269 | 9.50% xxxxxxx
    3 | HenHanna | 55 | 104 | 242,381 | 8.30% xxxxxx
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    5 | HenHanna@NewsGrouper | 37 | 64 | 150,005 | 5.58% xxxx
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    7 | Tony Cooper | 23 | 678 | 1,956,922 | 3.47% xx
    8 | Stefan Ram | 23 | 242 | 663,717 | 3.47% xx
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  • From Christian Weisgerber@naddy@mips.inka.de to rec.puzzles,sci.lang,alt.usage.english on Thu Jan 8 22:05:26 2026
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    On 2026-01-08, HenHanna NewsGrouper <user4055@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:

    Why did he stop posting in AUE, Sci.Lang ? --- Puzzling!

    He used the Google Groups gateway to access Usenet. When GG closed,
    he didn't migrate.
    --
    Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de
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  • From HenHanna@NewsGrouper@user4055@newsgrouper.org.invalid to rec.puzzles,sci.lang,alt.usage.english on Fri Jan 9 01:11:13 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.lang




    iirc... Sometime in mid 2025, PTD did a presentation at a workshop at UCB (Berkeley)


    Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> posted:

    On 2026-01-08, HenHanna NewsGrouper <user4055@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:

    Why did he stop posting in AUE, Sci.Lang ? --- Puzzling!

    He used the Google Groups gateway to access Usenet. When GG closed,
    he didn't migrate.



    Thank you... I didn't know that there was a clean, simple explanation (reason).

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    πŸ“Œ 1. 2024 Journal Review ------ Daniels published a book review in the Journal of the American Oriental Society (2024) of Signs – Sounds – Semantics: Nature and Transformation of Writing Systems in the Ancient Near East. This shows he’s actively contributing to scholarly discussion on writing systems and ancient scripts. (PhilPapers)

    πŸ“Œ 2. Academic Lectures / Conference Presence (2025) ------- He appears on the program for the Berkeley Linguistics Society 36 (2025), where he presents on how writing has been treated in linguistics β€” addressing both historical and conceptual issues in the study of writing systems. This indicates ongoing involvement in academic talks and linguistics community events. (Linguistics)
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