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  • 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, ......


    stats 2025
    ***** Users with most started threads *****
    num| Name | or. | Nb Msg | size | % ----|-----------------------------------|-----|--------|-----------|------------------|
    1 | occam | 84 | 965 | 1,887,942 | 12.67% xxxxxxxxxx
    2 | navi | 63 | 112 | 152,269 | 9.50% xxxxxxx
    3 | HenHanna | 55 | 104 | 242,381 | 8.30% xxxxxx
    4 | Hibou | 43 | 1,296 | 2,598,704 | 6.49% xxxxx
    5 | HenHanna@NewsGrouper | 37 | 64 | 150,005 | 5.58% xxxx
    6 | Peter Moylan | 27 | 1,486 | 3,464,731 | 4.07% xxx
    7 | Tony Cooper | 23 | 678 | 1,956,922 | 3.47% xx
    8 | Stefan Ram | 23 | 242 | 663,717 | 3.47% xx
    9 | Steve Hayes | 22 | 908 | 2,344,565 | 3.32% xx
    10 | Ken Blake | 20 | 37 | 78,268 | 3.02% 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
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    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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    Efoi 1. 2024 Journal Review ------ Daniels published a book review in the Journal of the American Oriental Society (2024) of Signs rCo Sounds rCo Semantics: Nature and Transformation of Writing Systems in the Ancient Near East. This shows herCOs actively contributing to scholarly discussion on writing systems and ancient scripts. (PhilPapers)

    Efoi 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 rCo 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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