Re: Did the Trojan war really happen the way Homer said it did?
From: Peter T. Daniels (grammatim_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: 07/17/04
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Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 12:07:06 GMT
Franz Gnaedinger wrote:
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> frgn@bluemail.ch (Franz Gnaedinger) wrote in message news:<2bf25455.0407152300.5116dd7f@posting.google.com>...
>
> Walther Hinz, following Cyrus H. Gordon, identified Linear A
> as a northwestern Semitic language, kin to Ugaritic, Eblaitic,
> Phoenician and Canaanitic; a bureaucratic script for bureaucrats,
> full of abbreviations, and rather bangling, therefore harder to
> tackle than Linear B.
Eblaite is now known to be a form of Akkadian, and not Northwest Semitic
at all; and "bangling" is not an English word.
-- Peter T. Daniels grammatim@att.net
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