BS: New Written Language Discovered

Subject: BS: New Written Language Discovered
From: maple_leaf_boy
Date: 11 May 10 - 06:03 PM

An ancient written language has been discovered.
I found the video on facebook.
Has anyone seen this yet?
Article

Subject: RE: BS: New Written Language Discovered
From: mousethief
Date: 11 May 10 - 07:20 PM

There's a lot of "maybe" in the article -- yes, maybe it's a script. It may have to do with a spoken language. The knots may be part of the script.

Perhaps they will find a pictish Rosetta Stone. If not I don't how if any putative decoding of the putative script could be anything but conjecture.

Subject: RE: BS: New Written Language Discovered
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 May 10 - 07:30 PM

There are other written languages waiting for "decoding" -- Linear A, for example.

Subject: RE: BS: New Written Language Discovered
From: mousethief
Date: 11 May 10 - 07:35 PM

Yes but we are pretty danged sure that Linear A is a language because it uses the same "alphabet" (well, syllabary) as Linear B. We have no such parallels with this new Pictish "language".

Subject: RE: BS: New Written Language Discovered
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 May 10 - 09:04 PM

Assuming that it is "alphabetical" in some way. I wouldn't discount the idea of engraved pictographs or petroglyphs -- I should say, "drawings" that recorded events.

Subject: RE: BS: New Written Language Discovered
From: mousethief
Date: 11 May 10 - 10:28 PM

What does that have to do with what I said? Maybe the mention of alphabets confused you. Linear A had an analogue. This purported script does not.

Subject: RE: BS: New Written Language Discovered
From: Beer
Date: 11 May 10 - 11:21 PM

Very interesting.
Thanks Maple_leaf.
Beer (adrien)

Subject: RE: BS: New Written Language Discovered
From: Charley Noble
Date: 12 May 10 - 08:09 AM

Pretty neat!

But what is the tune?

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: New Written Language Discovered
From: GUEST,BanjoRay
Date: 13 May 10 - 07:56 AM

I notice the article is dated March 31 - date easily confused with April 1, maybe?
Ray

Subject: RE: BS: New Written Language Discovered
From: Riginslinger
Date: 13 May 10 - 11:52 PM

I've found it kind of weird, trying to find something out about the Picts. Nobody seems to know much about them. Maybe this language revolation will shine some light on them.

Subject: RE: BS: New Written Language Discovered
From: Darowyn
Date: 14 May 10 - 04:10 AM

The principle of Occam's Razor was set out in former Pictish territory.
It proposes that the simplest explanation is most likely to be the correct one.
I suspect, using that principle, that a picture of a hunting scene, probably represents a scene of people hunting.
Cheers
Dave