[tied] Re: Indus Valley script decoded?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "S.Kalyanaraman" <kalyan97@...>
wrote:

>
> My humble submission is that linguistics alone cannot resolve the
> problem of parole in the civilization area circa 5000 years Before
> Present.

Linguistics alone? When did you try linguistics at all?

> We have to evolve means for networking with other
> disciplines: say, general semantics;

Semantics isn't another discipline, it falls under linguistics.

> say, art criticism; say, an expansion of Carl Darling Buck's A
> Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European
> Languages: A Contribution to the History of Ideas (to include
> Prakrits and substrates of Bharatiya languages). With a data base
> of such dimensions, some progress may perhaps be made to delineate
> the linguistic area.

What's the need? You claim to have already deciphered it.
Shall we also wait until you've encoded Audubon's entire
encyclopedia of birds too? But seriously, turn to any
other discipline you like for assistance. It's still
primarily a question for linguistics, and it still requires
doing linguistics _properly_ regardless of whatever any
other discipline contributes.

> Surely, the IE work has to pause and re-organize itself;

Why should it pause? What reason does it have to re-
organize itself? I suspect you won't find it sufficiently
"re-organized" until it goes along with what _you_ believe.

> shall I say, a paradigm shift is called for to make significant

leaps in knowledge systems?

Could you explain just what you think the present paradigm
is, what's wrong with it, and what sort of shift you think
it needs? I'm tired of years of reading your vague and
generalized statements about there being a problem in the
field, based apparently on nothing more than the fact that
it doesn't support your own idiosyncratic ideas.

David