Posted on 04/16/2021 7:52:57 AM PDT by Red Badger
‘agglutinative’
Damn you, you’re always pushing on the edges of my knowledge.
oral transmission of epics has been perfectly accurate
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I believe that worked quite well for a very long time with the Iliad before Homer wrote it down. There are long traditions of stories that were transmitted verbatim back when people used to have aural memories which we have since lost.
“writing makes its debut in the subcontinent.”
That have been found - there are many underwater cities off the Indian coastline that are only partially explored, if at all, likely dating back before sea level rise during the end of the Ice Age or end or the Younger Dryas.
I always thought the inventor was in a hurry to get to the patent office and trip and dropped the newfangled typewriter and all the keys fell off. He was in a hurry and quickly put them back on then made up a cockamamie story to the patent office why the keys spelled out QWERTY.... !
Did someone find “Q?”
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One reason for the claim of accurate transmission *is* the phony Greek Dark Age between the Trojan War and Homer, that doesn't make it evidence of anything. There are long (oral) traditions of (orally transmitted) stories that were (orally) transmitted verbatim (sic)...
A submerged town from the middle ages was exposed by the Boxing Day tsunami, and some statues where chucked up on the beach, but the sea still covers the town. That's on the east side of India. Off the west side, there's Dwarka, which *may* be ancestral to the Harappan civilization, which was apparently pre- and non-Vedic.
There IS a reason!
In the beginning, the original layout, which has been lost, was mastered by typists quickly and they could literally type faster than the mechanical parts could respond, and subsequently would jam.
So, they came up with the QWERTY layout that slowed the typists down to a speed that the typewriters could handle.................
Maybe it was rigged.........................
We’ve been on opposite sides regarding Velikovsky. I’m no longer interested in his theories.
But did you ever post a thread of his stuff, perhaps on Worlds In Collision? It’s fascinating, but I consider it refuted.
It hasn't been refuted, just disputed. My main interest is in his "Ages in Chaos" model, in fact, that has always been more interesting to me. My guess is, had that been published first, it would have caught on. Instead, he was vilified by the left (still is) led by Harlow Shapley, and this continued under the leftist imbecile Carl Sagan (but gosh, didn't he look nice on TV).
The conventional pseudochronology is just wrong. Even in this topic, the source article shows some the same kind of illogical CYAs going on to defend the pseudochronology -- a mysterious, unexplained gap between two supposedly time-separated identical developments.
The easiest example to understand is the floor tiles from one of Ramses III's structures has a pattern on the top surfaces that had to be laid just so -- and on the bottom surfaces, Greek letters were painted on (before firing) to show the order they were to be laid down. Ramses III lived during classical Greek times, and that's far from being the only evidence. His guts were still in his canopic jars, and radiocarbon dating was conducted not many years ago, at long last -- and just as Dr V predicted, the gap between pseudochronological age and actual age was more than 700 years.
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