Use of Gothic language in Spain

[Leonard Blunk]

This could be debated ad nausem but I do not care to engage in such debate. My point was that literacy and intelligence should be held to the standards of the times and peoples of those times. There are those who would hold that all mankind has descended from people who were naked humanoid creatures who were victims of their times and circumstances. I prefer to think that we are the descendants of the ones who figured out how to make it back to their caves in one piece!
                                            DR. ORIENT ROHMER 

Michael Erwin <merwin at btinternet.com> wrote:
          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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