Use of Gothic language in Spain

[Michael Erwin]

Literacy and intelligence are two different things.

On 29 Jul 2007, at 02:37, Leonard Blunk wrote:
> By whose standards are we judging their intelligence?
> Back then you had a caste system in which merchants, politicians,  
> musicians, writers, artists and the like actually did have some  
> brains. Oh, and lets not forget the mariners who also had to have  
> some intelligence in order to navigate--or is that some sort of  
> innate ability we lowly Germans are gifted with?
> DR. ORIENT ROHMER
>
> OSCAR HERRERA <duke.co at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> i think most of german tribes back then were probably illiterate  
> and there is hardly any history to says they wrote subject matters  
> in their own languages though they probably did, so there is more  
> history in the unknowst arena.....oscar
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