--- In Nostratica@yahoogroups.com, "Gerry" <waluk@...> wrote:

> Hogwash Richard. I'm beginning to think Piotr was correct in

leaving.

> You are merely making excuses rather than answering the questions
> presented.

Gerry,

How is your statement justified? You specifically said ".... both
Hebrew and Arabic (although written in Aramaic) script look like
mirror images, one a reversal of the other. Please explain."

and Richard replied "To me, the printed forms bear no immediate,
obvious cursory relationship, particularly not the one you are
referring to."

That is a direct response to your own question (and I must say one
that I find more realistic than the premise of your question; Hebrew
and Arabic do not look like mirror images to me)

Then you say

> Recent studies using fMRI to graph scholars reading
> Mandarin pictographs have shown access by both the left and right
> brain lobes. Supposedly English only utilizes the left brain.
> That's the direction I'm headed. Your information is worthless.

I've noticed that several times you have cited the research as
involving reading written English and Mandarin, yet if you go back to
the initial posting it clearly says it involved *listening* to
*spoken* language-

"Sophie Scott, a psychologist at the Wellcome Trust, and colleagues
from hospitals in Oxford and London performed brain scans on
volunteers as they *listened* to their native languages.
When English speakers *heard* the sound of Mockney, Mersey or
Geordie, their left temporal lobes lit up on screen. When Mandarin
Chinese speakers *heard* their native tongue, there was a buzz of
action in both the right and left temporal lobes." [emphasis added]

I think you owe Richard an apology.

Regards,
Ned Smith

>
> Gerry
>
> --- In Nostratica@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham"
> <richard@...> wrote:
> > > This is most enlightening. Hebrew, as you state, began as a
> > > Phoenician script (like Greek) but then changed to Aramaic

script.

> > > Yet both Hebrew and Arabic (although written in Aramaic) script
> look
> > > like mirror images, one a reversal of the other. Please

explain.

> >
> > I should have said Arabic was writen in a modified Aramaic

script.

> Which
> > style of Arabic script and which style of Hebrew script are you
> talking

To me, the printed forms bear no immediate, obvious cursory
relationship, particularly not the one you are referring to.

> >
> > Richard.