From: etaonsh
Message: 1032
Date: 2003-01-16
> Etaonsh wrote:do with runes.
> > I found your post on Gaulish and
> > Lepontic runes [...]
>
> Gauls and Leponti had nothing to
>That seems a rather peevish point
>Italy and Switzerland are in a form
> The Celtic inscription of Northern
> the Etruscan alphabet, which isnearly Latin inscription.
>needed
> > felt that the 'troll' matter
> > sorting out first. [...]call *you* a troll, but talked about
>
> (Notice that John Cowan did not
> "trolls", which means"provocations". Although I can agree
> "provocations" aren't the nicestterm to call other people's
> didn't look like an ad personamattack on you.)
>'Troll' is unquestionably a word
>Gaulish
> > [...] What interested
> > me particularly about the
> > runes I looked at was thesimilarity
> > between the Celtic cross symbolGaulish
> > Marco brought up, and the
> > 'theta.'side by side, they bear a striking
>
> And if you put the two symbols
> with the wheels of my bicycle.But bicycles didn't come till much
>
>C'mon, Etaonsh, this is not
>Right. So don't keep sacrificing
>letters in the Greek/Etruscan/Italic
> That letter, as all the other
> alphabet(s), derive(s) from thesame North Semitic alphabet that is
> origin of all the alphabets usedin Europe and Near East.
>the
> > In alphabetic terms, the
> > Celtic cross can be seen as
> > representing the superiority of
> > pre-Roman Imperial, at least in
> > representation of 'th' by oneletter
> > - thus the fact that Romana
> > 'civilisation' was not entirely
> > progressive experience.coincidence that Latin had no /th/
>
> I guess that it is just a
> to use that letter for, right?No, the point is that the Roman
>