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Topic: New Idea on Megaliths | |
berniegreen Replies: 28 Views: 27859 |
Forum: Megalithic Posted: 5:31 am Subject: New Idea on Megaliths |
Hello folks, it has been a long time since I have participated here. I return in order to recommend a new book to all who are seriously interested in this topic.
It is The Memory Code by Lynne Kell ... |
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Topic: Flying Chaucers | |
berniegreen Replies: 1119 Views: 397101 |
Forum: Linguistics Posted: 12:43 pm Subject: Flying Chaucers |
You may have sunshine on your side, Chad, about the Biblical example being a bit too much embroidery, but I don't agree with your position about the outliers on the Linear B stuff.
I reckon Don i ... |
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Topic: Flying Chaucers | |
berniegreen Replies: 1119 Views: 397101 |
Forum: Linguistics Posted: 2:56 am Subject: Flying Chaucers |
On the balance of probabilities which appears the more likely?
Others writing on the subject have resolved the paradox differently. But I've taken us off-topic.Okay. Point me to it or let us pursu ... |
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Topic: Flying Chaucers | |
berniegreen Replies: 1119 Views: 397101 |
Forum: Linguistics Posted: 1:14 am Subject: Flying Chaucers |
That's why I don't have time for your posts. So little imagination.I do believe that you are mistaking two things - fantasizing and imagination. My sense is that I have plenty of the second while you ... | |
Topic: Flying Chaucers | |
berniegreen Replies: 1119 Views: 397101 |
Forum: Linguistics Posted: 7:44 am Subject: Flying Chaucers |
Preliminary conclusion: Assumption is incorrect.
Next step: Determine soundness of assumption. The game continues. P.S. There is about 200 years difference between Dante and Milton but I ... |
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Topic: Flying Chaucers | |
berniegreen Replies: 1119 Views: 397101 |
Forum: Linguistics Posted: 5:40 am Subject: Flying Chaucers |
I strongly suspect the text was written quite recently and never existed in the ancient world. It may be the work of more than one author but I expect the principle author was British and lived in Eas ... | |
Topic: Flying Chaucers | |
berniegreen Replies: 1119 Views: 397101 |
Forum: Linguistics Posted: 5:27 am Subject: Flying Chaucers |
Okay so this East Anglian composed them in a funny mix of archaic Greek dialects and gets them to Athens among other places in good time for Socrates (to name one person that we have all heard of) to ... | |
Topic: Flying Chaucers | |
berniegreen Replies: 1119 Views: 397101 |
Forum: Linguistics Posted: 4:10 am Subject: Flying Chaucers |
Forger 1: "Better get this right in case Chad or Bernie read it in a few hundred years".
Forger 2: "Nah, Chad's gunna be too bloody lazy to read it... and Bernie'll believe aught" ... |
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Topic: Flying Chaucers | |
berniegreen Replies: 1119 Views: 397101 |
Forum: Linguistics Posted: 11:05 pm Subject: Flying Chaucers |
I imagine that Homer would sound as "completely weird" to a 4th-Century BC audience, or Beowulf to a 12th-Century AD audience, as the King James Bible to a 21st-Century audience: weird, but ... | |
Topic: Flying Chaucers | |
berniegreen Replies: 1119 Views: 397101 |
Forum: Linguistics Posted: 10:37 pm Subject: Flying Chaucers |
The question of literary forgeries is an interesting one. There have been examples of an author attempting to pass off a work as the work of another or as the work of an earlier time. It is usually ... | |
Topic: Matters Arising | |
berniegreen Replies: 3607 Views: 1008131 |
Forum: The History of Britain Revealed Posted: 10:38 pm Subject: Matters Arising |
What we await from him is an explanation as to why Latin, specifically, has a completely aberrant grammar and syntax from all the 'Romance' languages, whether mainstream now or dialects. Unless of co ... | |
Topic: Matters Arising | |
berniegreen Replies: 3607 Views: 1008131 |
Forum: The History of Britain Revealed Posted: 4:14 am Subject: Matters Arising |
I wrote the above before seeing Frank's latest.
It would indeed probably simplify matters if we could get some other terms established. The development and use of Latin was, as a process, remarkab ... |
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Topic: Matters Arising | |
berniegreen Replies: 3607 Views: 1008131 |
Forum: The History of Britain Revealed Posted: 3:43 am Subject: Matters Arising |
Ah Michael you are a bit of a comedian, aren't you? What you are not, clearly, is either an historian or a language scholar.
The answer to Frank's question is that they spoke then, as they do toda ... |
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Topic: Flying Chaucers | |
berniegreen Replies: 1119 Views: 397101 |
Forum: Linguistics Posted: 12:17 am Subject: Flying Chaucers |
A few days ago I raised here the issue of just how one actually would calibrate the rapidity or otherwise of language change. And Mick kindly offered me the poisoned chalice of making some choices.
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Topic: Varsity Blues | |
berniegreen Replies: 342 Views: 170522 |
Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 12:05 am Subject: Varsity Blues |
A very interesting thought, N8 and a topic that I haven't seen covered in the research that I have done so far. I guess that one can just speculate but to get some data on which to try to develop any ... | |
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