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Ancient language mystery deepens (Scotland)
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| August 10, 2010
| Victoria Gill
Posted on 08/11/2010 2:35:32 PM PDT by decimon
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To: blam
Is that the same farmer who was outstanding in his field?
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posted on
08/11/2010 7:31:16 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
To: decimon
It's either Old High Galifreyan
1 or Old Solar
2.
1 Doctor Who
2 C.S. Lewis' space trilogy
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posted on
08/11/2010 7:33:12 PM PDT
by
backwoods-engineer
(There is no "common good" which minimizes or sacrifices the individual. --Walter Scott Hudson)
To: sionnsar
I Pict a fine time to forget to ping you.
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posted on
08/11/2010 7:34:57 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
To: Windflier
a lot of the extant pictish carved stones have no discernible story, but they do have a lot of commonly found elements - discs, combs, cannot remember other items. There is some debate on what language family pictish belonged to, though q-celtic seems to be favored. IIRC the pictish king name Drost is believed to be a form of Tristan, which would support the celtic-language theory with its consonant mutation (t-d or d-t, I cannot remember now, though I did study welsh some time ago).
To: SunkenCiv
good haggis is excellent, and if it is given to you without you knowing what it is, you would never even know. McSweens seems to be the best in scotland nationally.
To: ElkGroveDan
Think of your late 20’s, that’s when it came out! :)
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posted on
08/11/2010 8:31:02 PM PDT
by
RaceBannon
(RON PAUL: THE PARTY OF TRUTHERS, TRAITORS AND UFO CHASERS!!!)
To: RaceBannon
I know what it is. My quote was from it too.
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posted on
08/11/2010 9:07:08 PM PDT
by
ElkGroveDan
(Now can we forget about that old rum-runner Joe Kennedy and his progeny of philandering drunks?)
To: RaceBannon
And I was about eight years old when it came out.
68
posted on
08/11/2010 9:09:33 PM PDT
by
ElkGroveDan
(Now can we forget about that old rum-runner Joe Kennedy and his progeny of philandering drunks?)
To: Rocky
I never date any women over 30...
...if they’re over 30, they’ve already heard all my pict-up lines.
badaboom, badabing.
69
posted on
08/11/2010 9:31:30 PM PDT
by
RebelTex
(FREEDOM IS EVERYONE'S RIGHT! AND EVERYONE'S RESPONSIBILITY!)
To: humblegunner; SunkenCiv; All
I think you are wrong about “we rode for a month”. I think “they went out at the time of the full moon” as that was the best time to go places before electric lights.
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posted on
08/11/2010 11:26:42 PM PDT
by
gleeaikin
(question authority)
To: SunkenCiv
I read somewhere, recently, that Julius Caesar wrote that the Pictish language was closely related to the language of the Basques.
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posted on
08/12/2010 5:36:30 AM PDT
by
Renfield
(Turning apples into venison since 1999!)
To: decimon
From top to bottom
From the temple of the heavens
Warriors embark on a journey by night
Making war with neighboring tribe
Telling the story of a great battle to an elder of the temple or an elder of some significance
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posted on
08/12/2010 11:32:53 AM PDT
by
ATOMIC_PUNK
(Any man may make a mistake ; none but a fool will persist in it . { Latin proverb })
To: Renfield
Let me know if you find it.
73
posted on
08/12/2010 2:56:48 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
To: WoofDog123
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posted on
08/12/2010 3:30:38 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
To: JoeProBono
Considering the Scottish climate I just can’t picture the women parading nude over the countryside.
75
posted on
08/14/2010 6:13:56 AM PDT
by
catfish1957
(Hey algore...You'll have to pry the steering wheel of my 317 HP V8 truck from my cold dead hands)
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posted on
05/19/2014 5:57:32 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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