Re: Reclaiming the chronology of Bharatam: Narahari Achar

At 3:05:48 PM on Thursday, June 19, 2008, koenraad_elst
wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott"
> <BMScott@...> wrote:

>>> but I took it for granted that you would at least know
>>> about the Gregorian calendar.

>> Apparently I know rather more about it than you do: it
>> wasn't used anywhere prior to 1582.

> That the Gregorian calendar was introduced in the 16th
> century is common knowledge

Optimist. Most of my university students don't even know
exactly how it works, let alone when it was introduced.

> and was not at all in dispute here.

Not by me, at any rate. But you've nicely distracted
attention from your real error, namely, the claim that the
(northern hemisphere) winter solstice is _by_definition_
around 21 December.

[...]

> We could also go back to determining the IE Urheimat,
> though.

My interests here are linguistic; I'm not particularly
interested in that question. Nor, to be honest, do I
consider you at all likely to provide useful input.

Brian