Al Bredenberg at A Thinking Person manages to highlight an interesting news story and criticize the BBC’s punctuation practices at the same time. A BBC article today (3 August 2010) highlights the discovery of a small box of bones reputed to be the remains of John the Baptizer, who announced Jesus’ appearance as Messiah and [...]
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John the Baptist’s Bones and BBC’s Quotation Marks (via A Thinking Person)
Posted in Uncategorized on September 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
‘Origin of Speeches’ says Edenic language is programmed in our brains
Posted in Ancient World, Bible, Hebrew, Language and Linguistics, Uncategorized, tagged Ancient World, ancient writing, Babel, Bible, Hebrew, history, intelligent design, language, linguistics on October 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I recently finished reading The Origin of Speeches: Intelligent Design in Language, a fascinating book by Edenics scholar Isaac E. Mozeson. Edenics is a linguistics project undertaken to study the original human mother tongue called Edenic, the language given to Adam in the garden of Eden. Mozeson is the leader of a group of scholars [...]
The Indus Script — A real language or not?
Posted in Ancient World, Language and Linguistics, prehistory, Resources, Uncategorized, tagged Ancient World, ancient writing, language, linguistics, prehistory on April 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
An article in NewScientist Thursday alerted me to a recent controversy over the Indus script, a set of symbols associated with the Indus Valley civilization of eastern Pakistan and western India. The Indus valley civilization is dated in the timeframe of 2500 to 1900 BCE, according to writer Ewen Callaway (see “Scholars at odds over [...]
