@Bally002 -
"Thou shalt not kill !!!"
Fortunately, for Moses, 'The Law' had not been given, at the Red Sea.
And...the New Testament says 'there is no sin without law'...
So, maybe he was grandfathered-In.
Cheerios
@Ninurta - How do you speak in hieroglyphics or hieratic?
I can understand writing and reading...but - don't most languages have a spoken component, too?
...One that matches the written component?
I mean - did the people on the street, and in business/commerce/government have a spoken language that flowed like hieroglyphics?
If so - I'm thinking that whoever is telling us what the hieroglyphic 'texts' are saying...is probably wrong.
@Michigan Swamp Buck - Stellar idea. Like hot dogs...but with beer. Kosher. Circumcised.
@EndtheMadnessNow - First time I think I have ever considered an 'unintelligibility-quotient', much less 'mutual unintelligibility', and even further, that mutual unintelligibility was/is associated with the maturation of a language.
500 years, versus 800-1,000 years - Sounds like early versus later retirement. Looks to me like there might tons of lost languages might have matured to a quasi-adolescent stage, only to get lost when the next fad comes along?
"Moses In The Wilderness"
by: Larry Norman
"Thou shalt not kill !!!"
Fortunately, for Moses, 'The Law' had not been given, at the Red Sea.
And...the New Testament says 'there is no sin without law'...
So, maybe he was grandfathered-In.
Cheerios
@Ninurta - How do you speak in hieroglyphics or hieratic?
I can understand writing and reading...but - don't most languages have a spoken component, too?
...One that matches the written component?
I mean - did the people on the street, and in business/commerce/government have a spoken language that flowed like hieroglyphics?
If so - I'm thinking that whoever is telling us what the hieroglyphic 'texts' are saying...is probably wrong.
@Michigan Swamp Buck - Stellar idea. Like hot dogs...but with beer. Kosher. Circumcised.
@EndtheMadnessNow - First time I think I have ever considered an 'unintelligibility-quotient', much less 'mutual unintelligibility', and even further, that mutual unintelligibility was/is associated with the maturation of a language.
500 years, versus 800-1,000 years - Sounds like early versus later retirement. Looks to me like there might tons of lost languages might have matured to a quasi-adolescent stage, only to get lost when the next fad comes along?
"Moses In The Wilderness"
by: Larry Norman
The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.
~ Carlos Castaneda
~ Carlos Castaneda