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11 May 10 - 06:03 PM (#2904769) Subject: BS: New Written Language Discovered From: maple_leaf_boy An ancient written language has been discovered. I found the video on facebook. Has anyone seen this yet? Article |
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11 May 10 - 07:20 PM (#2904829) Subject: RE: BS: New Written Language Discovered From: mousethief 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. |
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11 May 10 - 07:30 PM (#2904837) Subject: RE: BS: New Written Language Discovered From: Rapparee There are other written languages waiting for "decoding" -- Linear A, for example. |
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11 May 10 - 07:35 PM (#2904846) Subject: RE: BS: New Written Language Discovered From: mousethief 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". |
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11 May 10 - 09:04 PM (#2904883) Subject: RE: BS: New Written Language Discovered From: Rapparee 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. |
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11 May 10 - 10:28 PM (#2904907) Subject: RE: BS: New Written Language Discovered From: mousethief 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. |
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11 May 10 - 11:21 PM (#2904925) Subject: RE: BS: New Written Language Discovered From: Beer Very interesting. Thanks Maple_leaf. Beer (adrien) |
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12 May 10 - 08:09 AM (#2905152) Subject: RE: BS: New Written Language Discovered From: Charley Noble Pretty neat! But what is the tune? Charley Noble |
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13 May 10 - 07:56 AM (#2905967) Subject: RE: BS: New Written Language Discovered From: GUEST,BanjoRay I notice the article is dated March 31 - date easily confused with April 1, maybe? Ray |
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13 May 10 - 11:52 PM (#2906525) Subject: RE: BS: New Written Language Discovered From: Riginslinger 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. |
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14 May 10 - 04:10 AM (#2906592) Subject: RE: BS: New Written Language Discovered From: Darowyn 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 |