Note 2 — INTRODUCTION
Lillian Delger Powers translation
“After going carefully over your syntax I approve it in the main but I think it quite likely that many of the rules are not so inflexible as this makes them seem; besides which, there must be always a certain amount of modification by transliteration from the spoken language of those using the signs. This would manifest itself in a growing conformityF. W. Hodge (Ethnologist, Smithsonian Institution).