<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 22 May 2007 - Volume 05</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: </span><span id="_user_sandy@scotstext.org" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Sandy Fleming</span><span style="font-weight: normal; font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="lg">
<<a href="mailto:sandy@scotstext.org">sandy@scotstext.org</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2007.05.22 (03) [E/German]
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><div style="direction: ltr; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span class="q">> From: R. F. Hahn <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com">
sassisch@yahoo.com</a>><br>> Subject: Etymology<br>><br></span></div><div style="direction: ltr; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span class="q">> glyph was or was not involved. These predominantly pictographic glyps
<br>> are the earliest known ancestors of the Chinese script, the so-called<br>> Oracle Bone Script (甲骨文 "shell bone writing"). We can trace this<br>> back to the Shang (商) or Yi (殷) dynasty (ca. 1600-1446 BCE), but it
<br>> may be older than that. There are indications that this practice was<br><br></span></div><div style="direction: ltr; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Ron,<br><br>Some breaking news that might interest you:<br><br>
<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6669569.stm" target="_blank">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6669569.stm</a><br></div><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="sg">
<br>Sandy Fleming<br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://scotstext.org/" target="_blank">http://scotstext.org/</a><br><br></span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">----------</span>
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="q">From: R. F. Hahn <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com">
sassisch@yahoo.com</a>><br>Subject: History<br><br>Thanks a lot, Sandy.<br><br>I can't say that I'm hugely surprised. The hitherto oldest known Oracle Bone Script symbols are fairly standardized and also rather abstract. This suggests that we are dealing with a then already old tradition.
<br><br>I would not be surprised either if there were scripts even before that. Much depends on the durability of the writing surface. Even nowadays some people still write on bamboo, wood, bark, cloth and even into sand, and our paper ain't all that durable either, not to mention our electronic writing.
<br><br></span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Reinhard/Ron</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">