Re: Hines- Fool Or Fraud?
Horace LaBadie wrote:
> > nospam.spammers.of.the.world.unite.com wrote:
Horace LaBadie said:
What about "not to be accepted by a modern reader as literally
accurate" do you not comprehend? If I were to quote to you from
Colin Powell's presentation to the UN Security Council about the
absolute certainty that Iraq possessed WMD in 2003, would you agree
now that it was literally accurate at the moment he made that
presentation? By his current account, he recived information that
he then accepted as accurate because he deemed the source reliable.
As it turns out, the source was not reliable. I can quote that
presentation forever, but that does not make it accurate. The
document in question is what it is, a medieval travelogue, of which
portions are mistaken, fanciful, and grossly exxagerated, to be
received as hearsay. We know that there were no mermaids. We also
know that the figures as given were mistaken. Get over it, and move
on.
Walruses and whales are not fiction and the original author was
describing real
things and giving practical descriptions. When the book describes
how skis of eight or nine "ells" long, can be used to travel swiftly
across the ice and snow, I prefer to think that the author is
describing skis as we, in the modern
world, would understand them, as flat blades about six feet long.
But, you are preferring the notion that the Speculum Regale is total
fantasy and therefore the dimensions are all wrong because of that.
The skis were, in your preferred position, described as thirty feet
long and therefore just fantasy. I think I can leave you alone with
that notion, as you can't cut yourself with it and it doesn't really
matter to anyone else.
No, you are again misrepresenting. I have concluded that the book is
in error, but I have not said that it is total fantasy. That is an
outright lie. The book is in other places full of errors and
exaggerations. There is no reason,therefore, to accept the
measurements as literally correct. There is also no reason for you to
misrepresent the text as having said something else, or to invent a
new unit of measurement to justify this misrepresentation.
Sticking with the analogy, suppose that Colin Powell had said, "Iraq
has developed a SCUD missile that is capable of flying 10000 miles."
Suppose, further, that this was glossed by an editor, *Fewer than 200
km." This misrepresents the text. Suppose, too, that when it was
pointed out to the editor that 10000 miles does not equate to fewer
than 200 km, the editor were to reply that "Colin Powell was using a
mile of 52.8 feet." What would one be justified in thinking of such
an invention?
It is clear what you mean, but there is only one conclusion possible:
the SR ell was not one of the long or short ells we know.
If nospam's interpretation is correct, there are parallels in the Feet
of Utrecht (27cm), Zwolle (24), Gelre (27) and no doubt more
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