Re: Vinca script, cross bar angle - Ki Ri Ke


Peter T. Daniels wrote:
yet another evasive reply.

Meanwhile I know where the wind blows. I recognize a pattern.
You are denying everything that goes beyond the book you
edited together with William Bright, The World's Writing Systems,
1996 (as I recall). Your reputation in the linguistic community relies
almost entirely on that book. So you have an interest in keeping it
actual, current. You could achieve this by working on a second
edition, or a second volume on earliest writing, and include recent
insights such as the decipherment of the knotted strings known as
quipa. Or you can deny what goes beyond The Book. You chose
the latter option. In the Ancient Near East forum ANE you deny
that the quipa are a form of writing. You go on dismissing the
book by Derk Ohlenroth without having much as laid a glass eye
on it. The same reaction when I informed sci.lang on Walther
Hinz's decipherment of Linear A tablet Hagia Triada 95 on the
basis of Cyrus H. Gordon's work: no, you won't read my message.
You know nothing about Goebekli Tepe, which proves that it can't
be of any importance. And these days you are turning around
what Marija Gimbutas wrote on the Sacred Script of Old Europe
that predates the Sumerian invention of writing by two millennia,
hoping that by some magic the chapter Sacred Script of her book
The Civilization of the Goddess will go blank, in every copy world-
wide. You are trying to keep your book actual by holding up the
scientific progress and freezing time. You might as well try to stop
a river and hold up the Niagara Falls.

Franz Gnaedinger

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