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

>
> 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)

Yes, if that is indeed what Richard said, then I must have misread
his response. Somehow though, his answer came across as not
applicable to my original question. Perhaps Richard and I need some
type of interpreter.

> 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.

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/ query.fcgi?
cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=10402199

or

privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~vcook/neurolinguisticsla.htm

Both links clearly states the "written" and not spoken word ... they
deal with processing visually presented sentences in Mandarin. What I
had originally stated was the written language which differs in that
Mandarin presents a pictograph while other alphabets consist of lines
and circles (more computer oriented).

Sincerely,
Gerry