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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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" ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.
...

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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Topic: New Idea on Megaliths
berniegreen Replies: 28 Views: 26945	Forum: Megalithic Posted: 5:31 am Subject: New Idea on Megaliths
berniegreen Replies: 28 Views: 26945	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 ...
Topic: Flying Chaucers
berniegreen Replies: 1119 Views: 393723	Forum: Linguistics Posted: 12:43 pm Subject: Flying Chaucers
berniegreen Replies: 1119 Views: 393723	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 ...
Topic: Flying Chaucers
berniegreen Replies: 1119 Views: 393723	Forum: Linguistics Posted: 2:56 am Subject: Flying Chaucers
berniegreen Replies: 1119 Views: 393723	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 ...
Topic: Flying Chaucers
berniegreen Replies: 1119 Views: 393723	Forum: Linguistics Posted: 1:14 am Subject: Flying Chaucers
berniegreen Replies: 1119 Views: 393723	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: 393723	Forum: Linguistics Posted: 7:44 am Subject: Flying Chaucers
berniegreen Replies: 1119 Views: 393723	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 ...
Topic: Flying Chaucers
berniegreen Replies: 1119 Views: 393723	Forum: Linguistics Posted: 5:40 am Subject: Flying Chaucers
berniegreen Replies: 1119 Views: 393723	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: 393723	Forum: Linguistics Posted: 5:27 am Subject: Flying Chaucers
berniegreen Replies: 1119 Views: 393723	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: 393723	Forum: Linguistics Posted: 4:10 am Subject: Flying Chaucers
berniegreen Replies: 1119 Views: 393723	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" ...
Topic: Flying Chaucers
berniegreen Replies: 1119 Views: 393723	Forum: Linguistics Posted: 11:05 pm Subject: Flying Chaucers
berniegreen Replies: 1119 Views: 393723	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: 393723	Forum: Linguistics Posted: 10:37 pm Subject: Flying Chaucers
berniegreen Replies: 1119 Views: 393723	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: 995054	Forum: The History of Britain Revealed Posted: 10:38 pm Subject: Matters Arising
berniegreen Replies: 3607 Views: 995054	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: 995054	Forum: The History of Britain Revealed Posted: 4:14 am Subject: Matters Arising
berniegreen Replies: 3607 Views: 995054	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 ...
Topic: Matters Arising
berniegreen Replies: 3607 Views: 995054	Forum: The History of Britain Revealed Posted: 3:43 am Subject: Matters Arising
berniegreen Replies: 3607 Views: 995054	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 ...
Topic: Flying Chaucers
berniegreen Replies: 1119 Views: 393723	Forum: Linguistics Posted: 12:17 am Subject: Flying Chaucers
berniegreen Replies: 1119 Views: 393723	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. ...
Topic: Varsity Blues
berniegreen Replies: 342 Views: 168499	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 12:05 am Subject: Varsity Blues
berniegreen Replies: 342 Views: 168499	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 ...