Re: Mitanni, Hurrians, etc.

Subject: [cybalist] Re: Mitanni, Hurrians, etc.

> >afme@... writes:
>
> >That's a nice way to dispose of the issue, the information is still there
> and the world responds to the kinds of question raised.
>
> -- the information isn't there; that's why it's the playground of kooks.

AAAhhh, and who supplies the appelative? Historically it's always the
opposition who donates the epjorative labels, vide
antidisestablishmentarianism to which supercalifragilisticexpialodotious is
the proper response.

>
> >IFFF by that you mean alphabetic writing, of course that's right. IF
> that means any and all kinds, you're totally wrong.
>
> -- got any evidence? No? Didn't think so.

=== well since you already foreclosed the possibility with "Didn't think so"
what could I say?

> >Dating is a very vexed issue.
> -- not any more, it isn't.

AND< according to whom?

> >That's OUR dating and specialist confined as well, Indian scholars date
> otherwise, now who's right?
>
> -- no, Indian scholars don't date otherwise, apart from a few nationalist
> loons.

-- The usual ad hominems, kooks, loons, mavericks, which, of course,
disposes of the issues, do it?

>
> >And because conceivably mildly misnamed and possibly somewhat mislocated

the whole argument falls flat?

-- yup.
=== Thanks for at least one honest admission

> >does not apply to the languages thmselves,
>
> -- the Bronze Age syllabic scripts had a number of technical shortcomings,
> due to the fact that the signs had numerous alternative meanings which had

to

> be derived from context.
>
> That's why learning to use them required so much time and effort.

=== I can see you really studied the subject, so ought I to "feel" god
forbid I'd use "think" here, humiliated and slink off?????????????????????

> The languages themselves, however, were not "ambiguous", and could be

written in a straightforward alphabetic script without the elaborate puns
and

> associational meanings used in the scripts.

=== The Proper response here is B>S> !!!!!!!!!!

> That's why alphabetic writing replaced the earlier kinds in most places.
> It's superior.

AAAHHH now I am raaahhhly reduced to the snail level of abjection, to whose
satisfaction? My standard proverb here is: " If one goes out with children,
one tends to come home with some" I quite like the ad hominem, at the slang
level it's rather direct. It's remarkable how the "learned" descend to
insults when questioned.

UY.