Interminable debate on Indus writing continues with Richard Sproat's

From: S. Kalyanaraman
Message: 71757
Date: 2014-07-09

http://bharatkalyan97.blogspot.in/2014/06/interminable-debate-on-indus-writing.html
Congratulations, Richard Sproat that your work of 26 June 2013 gets published at last in a scholarly forum after the irresponsible way Science dealt with your refutation of Rao's theses. I do not agree with all of Rao's theses which assume a syllabic foundation for Indus writing, following the errors of decipherment claims of Parpola, Mahadevan et al.

I respect your opinions and may not necessarily agree with all of them. I will fight for your rights to express your views.

Product DetailsI think my work on Philosophy of Symbolic Forms in Meluhha cipher and related titles, shows some areas in which I disagree with your dogmatic assertions about Indus writing being non-linguistic. I don't concede that the Indus writing was non-linguistic.

I call it Meluhha hieroglyphic writing. Just as you rightly expect your work to be reviewed seriously, I would also expect my work to be reviewed in any way reviewers choose fit.

Sure, many hurdles have to be crossed, starting with the word and meaning of 'Meluhha' as a linguistic category.

Again, congrats and best wishes, Richard.

Kalyanaraman

New analysis contradicts findings published in Science

The full text of Richard Sproat (Google Inc.) paper is at  http://www.linguisticsociety.org/document/language-vol-90-issue-2-june-2014-sproat.

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