¹ On page 6 of the same work Bloomfield writes : 'When the non-linguist sets out to talk about language, he very often lapses into discourse about writing. In order to avoid this confusion, we shall here use the term “language” only of the conventional use of vocal sound (“spoken” language), distinguishing this from substitutes, such as writing or drum signals, and from other actions, such as facial mimicry, which may serve in communication.' In my opinion, much of what Bloomfield calls 'the language of science' is not language as here defined, but ideographic writing.

² The phonetic transcriptions in this article, modeled on the transcriptions in Bloomfield's Language, are supplied by the Editor.

³ On the other hand, the mark “, which corresponds to second and to ['seknd] in some situations, is never used for the numeral.