Typology before decipherment?

[Richard M. Alderson III]

On 15 Sep 1999, Gordon Selway wrote:

>So I guess our [...] moderator may be thinking about the question in prospect,
>not in hindsight, when he wrote as below

text quoted by Lloyd Anderson in his own response to what I had written, which
was

>>If a text is undeciphered, it is unclear to me how any amount of typological
>>information could be put to use.  Typology makes reference to concepts such
>>as "noun", "verb", "adjective", "subject", "object", and so on, which cannot
>>be applied to an undeciphered text.  Perhaps you mean something other than
>>"undeciphered"?

My apologies to Mr. Selway and to the readers for over-anxious editing.

								Rich Alderson