Re: [tied] Re: Indus Valley script decoded?

From: Glen Gordon
Message: 27611
Date: 2003-11-26

Kali to Marco:
>If so, the link with soma (R.gveda) becomes interesting.

Look, K. What I find more interesting about this whole fiasco of yours are
things like "assem" which you claim to be "Old Egyptian". If you knew
about Egyptian at all, even opened a book on it, you'd be aware that
Egyptian didn't write vowels. Everyone that's serious about linguistics
or Egyptology knows this.

So if you are to cite a form with vowels, you must surely mean that this
word has been reconstructed based on other evidence. According to
proper linguistic notation, one would write the etymon as *assem, with
an asterisk to show that it is hypothesized and not directly attested.

This goof-up shows quite clearly your ignorance of linguistics, among other
facts you've spit out that equally conspire against your obsessive doctrine.
Yet you try to put on this facade of humbleness. Well if you aspire to be
so humble, the least you can do is admit that you know far too little about
linguistics right now to come up with credible etymologies that we
should take seriously.

It's like someone aspiring to be an electrician without knowing what a
wire is. Imagine if you were a fellow electrician working with somebody
like that. You'd naturally insist that this electrician take the day off.


= gLeN

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