Re: More Etymology!


"Franz Gnaedinger" <frgn@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Feb 7, 9:48 pm, "heliogabalus" <forbid...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I surrender.

Don't surrender. Buy the book by Klaus Schmidt.
Or tell me your postal address and I'll send you
a free copy (repeating my offer).

If you are attentive to others like you are to me (I refer to my eyes's
problems I've talked of in more than an occasion) I'd have to call you
insensitive. So stop offering me this book. And even if I were
eagle-eyed, I wouldn't read it, cause, as others
observed in this thread, the nature of signs has to be established by a
linguist, not by an archeologist.

So, I'm unable to obtain from you a shred of a quote of the very
words written by your archeologist. In the meantime, I sent a
question to another archeologist, and you can read his answer in
the message
"Still on Göbekli Tepe's glyphs".

Yes, I saw your other thread, and I am _not_ happy with it.
First, Klaus Schmidt will surely have no time
answering your email [..] and
Klaus Schmidt has certainly no time to answer
the post of a 'heliogabalus' who doesn't even
bother having a look at his book.

Never mind, I'm fully satisfied with the answer of the archeologist I
cited.


And then I take offense at what
you said in the new thread: in your email you
spoke of a hieroglyphic writing system. I never
called the small pictograms of Göbekli Tepe
a writing system. In my opinion, they mark the
transition from conveying messages via pictures
to actual writing.

You never said this before. You dissertated about "an abstract sign, the
lying
H, whose horizontal bars represent the earth AC and the sky CA".
CA and AC, in your Magdalenian theory, are words of a primitive
language, so I infer that in your mind the lying H is a written sign
of these words.

There
is a long way to go from single hieroglyphs to writing
systems, as they emerged at Abdos and in Meso-
potamia 5,400 years ago. But you can't relly expect
writing systems appearing out of nowhere, can you?

i can't. As I said you in many occasions, to understand the phylogenetic
birth of the language you have to observe the ontogenetic development of
it in a child, wich procedes from images to more abstract symbols.






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