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A translation unmasked?
Baltimore Sun ^
| FR Post 2-11-04
| By David Kohn
Posted on 02/11/2004 5:55:57 AM PST by vannrox
Dispute: A heralded linguistic deciphering of an extinct hieroglyphic script accomplished in the 1990s is under attack by two researchers.
FOR LINGUISTS, it's like hitting a home run in the bottom of the ninth to win the World Series.
Terrence Kaufman and John Justeson struck that blast in 1993 when they cracked one of the planet's few remaining undeciphered writing systems - a hieroglyphic script from the mysterious Isthmian civilization, which occupied southern Mexico 2,000 years ago.
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Mexico; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: civilization; extinct; hieroglyphic; history; isthmian; john; justeson; kaufman; language; mexico; mysterious; past; script; systems; terrence; translation; undeciphered; writing
Interesting
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posted on
02/11/2004 5:55:58 AM PST
by
vannrox
To: vannrox
It is interesting. But the argument between these scholars is what academia and scholarship are all about. Not sure why more mainstream press would care. Is the paper intentionally trying to stir up s--t between these people?
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posted on
02/11/2004 6:06:46 AM PST
by
Gefreiter
To: vannrox
Cunning linguists.
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posted on
02/11/2004 6:08:36 AM PST
by
TommyDale
To: TommyDale
Cunning linguists Watch your tongue! ; )
To: TommyDale
ROFL!
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posted on
02/11/2004 6:16:55 AM PST
by
Constitution Day
(Eschew exclamatory abuse.)
To: vannrox
Recommended reading: Lost Languages by Andrew Robinson. Chapter 9 discusses the Isthmian script, and shows the extant Isthmian texts.
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posted on
02/11/2004 6:34:53 AM PST
by
Physicist
(Sophie Rhiannon Sterner, born 1/19/2004: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1061267/posts)
To: LowCountryJoe
ROTFLMAO
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posted on
02/11/2004 6:36:12 AM PST
by
BIGZ
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