--- In
cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...>
wrote:
>
>
> Can someone tell me where the traces of the Elstian
> 3500 BCE writing are in India, or anywhere else in the
> world for that matter?
"Elstian
3500 BCE writing in India"? I never mentioned such a thing.
This is an interesting example of how a silly misreading can take on
a life of its own. One of the earlier posters in this thread, in his
reply to me, mentioned the appearance of writing in India in "c. 3-
500 BC", i.e. Brahmi writing in "three to five hundred BC". That's
not the same thing as "three thousand five hundred BC". If not
stopped in time, such canards can quickly become the received
wisdom. After all, nobody who has read Rick's scornful comment based
on a misreading is under any obligation to read the present post
correcting it. Let's see how this canard fares.
Cheers,
KE