Re: Elamitist discovered? PLEEEZ NO!

From: Ivanovas/Milatos
Message: 1659
Date: 2000-02-22

Hello,

Guillaume wrote:
He tries to read Aramean with Turkish ...
>to prove that turkish was an "ancient" language (whereas all languages, you
will agree are equally ancient, apart from esperanto). It is easy, because
there are no vowels and no punctuation signs. <

I haven't seen the 'event' you talk about, but this understanding should
make us all more careful:
If it is easy to recognize even Turkish in an ancient Semitic language -
remember that whenever you come across any 'decipherment' of heretofore
unknown languages as Semitic or Semitic 'bits' in other languages - it seems
to be very easy to 'recognize' them by adding 'free vowels' and then reading
ancient Semitic There is e.g. a decipherment of the Phaistos Disk (and
Linear A) on this basis - I admit it looks much less racist when the subject
is to make Crete a country of ancient Semitic by proving its written
language(s) to be -proto- Ugaritic, but that's the same thing...

Sabine