Europes Oldest Civilization Discovered

[Frank Harrist]

NO MATCHES!

[marduk]

i have a lighter if its any good
it has an abc down the left hand side Frank

[Cognito]

Frank, try: "Drop dead, barbarian"

[Guest]

how did you manage to wade through all 53 pages of The Language of Pictland without realising that its not a book but actually a paper based on one of her lectures

It's a book. That's why it says on the back page "ISBN ...." and two sets of numbers.

she actually says herself at the end that "she does not rule out the possibility of a pre celtic substratum influence on pictish"

And she finished by saying "This, however, should be considered utterly unremarkable (and as I have stressed is not at all the same thing as the survival of a non-Indo-European speech-community)" page 37.

that means that the picts were around before the celts arrived on the scene don't you think otherwise how could there be a pre celtic anything ?
or didn't you read the penultimate page of

her book

on page 37

You mean where it says: "This language shift, however, occurred long before the earliest extant evidence and does not in any way imply the survival into the historic period of distinct non-Indo-European languages anywhere in the British Isles. The Picts have languished in the non-Indo-European ghetto long enough, it is high time they were acknowledged as being as fully Celtic as their Irish and British neighbours, and studied accordingly".

and if as you claim that you know of her work you might have realised that shes a historian and not a linguist as she actually states herself on the last line

And nowhere did I say she was a linguist and not a historian.

you pooh pooh references that you haven't read and clearly respond with others that you haven't read without knowing that they refute what you are claiming

A strange comment from someone who said earlier-

I didn't bother to look at your websites I just assumed that you didn't have a clue what you were talking about...

And anyway, you haven't actually posted any evidence yet!

you answer posts with personal insults and attacks

What-like this one?

(what happen ex boyfriend garnd wizard dump you or something)

so if its possible for you to actually post something not nonsensical this time and politely i will respond in kind
if not as they say in Sumer
šub dugdugurhi naĝah

If that's your idea of sensible, I don't have much to worry about. Why don't you just answer the question you were asked; do you have evidence for the ridiculous statements about the Picts you made a few pages ago, or don't you. It's a simple enough question-just answer yes or no.

[Frank Harrist]

Got it! Thanks. Akkadian or sumerian?

[Minimalist]

Akkadian or sumerian?

Yiddish.

[marduk]

lesson number two

[Guest]

So in other words, you have NO evidence to back up your claims about the Picts?

[Minimalist]

Ask him what Hancock thinks of the Picts, RK.

[Frank Harrist]

lesson number two

Yeah well same to you buddy!

[Guest]

Bob,
Probably get a more sensible answer asking him what Osmanagich thinks about them!

[Beagle]

He describes himself as a Sumerologist. I don't know why he doesn't start the topic. We've invited him too. No other web site will let him that I've seen.

[Frank Harrist]

Marduk, you really didn't give us a lot to go on there. Maybe you better give a little more. I mean evidence as RK requested.

[Minimalist]

Bob,
Probably get a more sensible answer asking him what Osmanagich thinks about them!

Oooh.....low blow, there.

[Guest]

He describes himself as a Sumerologist

Does that mean he studies sumo wrestlers?