Re: The Phaistos Disk, side A, according to Faucounau (was: Fischer)

From: Jacques Guy (jguy_at_alphalink.com.au)
Date: 07/10/04 

Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:02:06 -0700

grapheus wrote:

> b)-that there is one general law concerning SCRIPT : Historically, the
> script has always followed the natural path of the REDUCTION of the
> NUMBER of Signs used !..

Like Phoenician -> Greek -> Armenian, Georgian, Cyrillic

Like Latin -> French.

Oops, sorry.

Allow me to correct my mistake: obviously the Romans
borrowed writing from the modern French and then followed
the natural path of the REDUCTION of the NUMBER of Signs
used by dropping the c-cedilla, the acute, the grave, the
circumflex, the diaeresis. They also borrowed it from the
Poles, and the Hungarians, and the Czechs, and the Rumanians
and, naturally, dropped all those funny thingies.
They also borrowed it from the Turks, and dropped the
dot-less i. And look at all the stuff they dropped
from the I.P.A.!

> And the best proof that he has been right is that there
> is NO TROUBLE in reading and understanding the text of the Disk !...

Fine example of a CIRCULAR PROOF ! And, let me add, the Disk
being CIRCULAR is PROOF that this PROOF is CORRECT !!!

> Because GREEK is a language where FINAL -S, -N and -R are important
> !.. The Greek "inventor" of the Phaistos Disk's Script chose a)- not
> to render -N b)- but to create a particular sign for -R (in fact the
> sign AR and -S (in fact, the sign AS. There is NOTHING STRANGE with
> that !..

So the scribe created an 's' because it's important. And that is
why, right at the beginning (p.111 of Faucounau's book) he
wrote "Ariwn aamos" as "a-ri-o a-a-mo" without his "s".

And why, again right at the beginning, but this time of side
B, did he write "ka-ki-po-tae" without a final 's', and in the
next sentence, "ti-po-syo-klae" instead of "ti-po-syo-klae-s"
and "r-ko-syo" instead of "r-ko-syo-s" (supposed to spell
Argoios)

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