Pre-Greek languages

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

>larryt at cogs.susx.ac.uk writes:

<<  I think they tend rather to support the idea that Linear A was used to
write a language quite different from Greek, and that Linear B was merely
cobled so as to produce something in which it was possible to write Greek.  A
system invented from square one for writing Greek would surely have done a
better job.  >>

-- mea culpa, I was unclear.  You've summed up exactly what I meant to say.