Re: Annedoti, Anon (Re: A China-Sumer connection)

From: Peter T. Daniels (grammatim_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: 03/06/05 

Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2005 13:48:41 GMT

Comm wrote:
>
> "Doug Weller" <dweller@ramtops.removethisdemon.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:rqdl21d8sa44dh55ilkea5rlrkkb7odbhk@4ax.com...
> > On Sun, 06 Mar 2005 02:25:22 GMT, in sci.archaeology, Comm wrote:
> >
> > It was easy to find the post: http://tinyurl.com/6p6jj
> >
> > The relevant line is:
> > "I saw something that dated the Indians here (in S. America) back at least
> > to 50 thousand years ago, too."
>
> Hmm, google did not give me that post - I used google. I did not say I'm
> here. I said the Indians here - qualifying that by ( ) (S. America). Not
> that I'm there. Are there Indians anywhere other than N and S America?

Um, India?

Usually when someone writes "here," one means 'the place one is at the
moment'. So when you qualified "here" with "(in S. America)," with no
further information the inference is that you were writing from "S.
America." It subsequently transpired that by "here" you meant nothing
more specific than "Western Hemisphere."

> > It does look as though you are writing that you are in South America,
> > although from subsequent posts it appears that by 'here' you mean both
> > continents.
>
> Yes, I do, the ( ) was a qualifier.
> >
> > In the next paragraph, by the way, I notice that you are under the
> > illusion that Europeans thought the earth was flat during historical
> > times. This is a myth, created in the 19th century. There may have been a
> > small handful of educated Europeans who thought this, but only a few.
>
> Oh is it? I recall Galileo, Copernicus, etc.

What, praytell, does "flat earth" have to do with "heliocentric"?

The myth Doug refers to goes back precisely to Washington Irving's
"biography" of Columbus written for the 1842 observations of the 350th
anniversary of his first voyage. 

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Peter T. Daniels                       grammatim@att.net

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