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From: lilandbr@scn.org (Leland Bryant Ross)
Subject: Re: How Sumerians invented language has now moved to...
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Reply-To: lilandbr@scn.org (Leland Bryant Ross)
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Date: Wed, 2 Oct 1996 03:25:23 GMT
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Ysgrifennodd j.guy@trl.telstra.com.au (Jacques Guy):

>Miguel Carrasquer Vidal:
>
>> by imposing a strict limit of 10,000 years on linguistic reconstruction
>> to shut the Ruhlen's out, "you guys" have opened the door wide for the
>> Halloran's of this world.
>
>And I shall shut it forthwith thus: we all know, thanks to good
>Bishop Usher, that the world, the universe, and everything were
>created on October 10th, 4004 BC (now don't ask me which calendar
>the good Bishop was using, we Frankensteinians do not take kindly
>to smart asses that try to confuse the issue). Adam was created
>on October 16th. Now, God brought all the animals for Adam to 
>name them. Therefore, language dates from October 16th, 4004 BC.
>Voila.
>
Didn't we just get done celebrating the New Year #5757??  1996 from 5757 
does *not* yield 4004!  In any event, God was already using language one 
the first day of creation.  The first recorded utterance was "Fiat Lux", 
obviously prophetic, though there is nothing in the record to oppose the 
hypothesis that God used language even earlier, in the initial creation 
of Heaven and Earth (out of what in Esperanto is called "Tohuvabohuo"), 
and quite possibly during aeons of aeons of time before time.
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