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[Oracle]

But anyone who sets foot on Cyprus is immediately transformed into a Choirokitian ....

[polis]

It looks like Politsa can’t read…

“…the scribes who adapted the Greek alphabet from the Phoenician consonantal script were accustomed to writing Greek in the syllabic script of Cyprus.”

Are these GREEK scribes that were accustomed to writing Greek in the syllabic script of Cyprus, Greek or Cypriots? :?

Either way you lose Politsa, because if they were Greeks then who taught them the syllabic script of Cyprus? The Mohicans? :lol:

If they were Cypriots, then who invented the Greek language? The Mohicans? :lol:

Either way… you’re fucked!

Ok, you piece of shit. The argument made by the author is that the Cypriot script which dates back to 11 BC, before Phoenicians ever arrived in the island, was a Greek scipt, that is a script used by the Greek population of the island, which had evolved directly from the Minoan Linear B. The Greeks of Cyprus then acquired the Phoenician script at some point and converted it into the Greek alphabet which then migrated to the rest of the Greek populations. The relevant part of the article is this:

"The earliest Greek script -- Linear B -- stems from the Minoan civilization, which thrived on Crete. Indeed, Knossos is the major Mycenaean site of the earliest Greek writing, which dates at about 1400 B.C.

Eventually, this script evolved into another syllabic script -- the Cypriot Syllabary -- which was used by the Greeks of Cyprus and first appeared in the mid-11th century B.C. In both of these scripts, each symbol represented a consonant and vowel sequence."

The articles main claim is that there is a "continuity of Greek literacy from Mycenaean Greece to the present day", the syllabic script of Cyprus being part of that continuum.

We've established that in the present discussion you are playing the role of the village idiot but village idiots are supposed to be amusing. You are just an annoying waste of bandwith. Now go back to your whichever hole in the ground you crept out from.

[T_C]

They were ACCUSTOMED (ie: adapted) to writing Greek in the syllabic script of Cyprus.

Makes perfect sense to me!

[Oracle]

Sounds like everyone agrees the Greeks came to Cyprus thousands of years before the Turks ....

'Nough said!

[T_C]

[polis]

They were ACCUSTOMED (ie: adapted) to writing Greek in the syllabic script of Cyprus.

Makes perfect sense to me! :D

Shouldn't there be a rule prohibiting anyone with an IQ under 85 from contributing to the list on subjects other than how to swipe a street or dig a whole or whatever else these people are supposed to be doing in their daily lives?

[The Cypriot]

Shouldn't there be a rule that anyone with an IQ under 85 should not be allowed to write posts to the list in subjects other than how to swipe a street or dig a whole or whatever else these people are supposed to be doing in their daily lives?

Tell me about it...

The worst culprits are the offensive louts who think they're clever but who can't even spell.

Dig a whole what? A whole excavation? To find some more Arcadian crock?

[T_C]

They were ACCUSTOMED (ie: adapted) to writing Greek in the syllabic script of Cyprus.

Makes perfect sense to me!

Shouldn't there be a rule prohibiting anyone with an IQ under 85 from contributing to the list on subjects other than how to swipe a street or dig a whole or whatever else these people are supposed to be doing in their daily lives?

Well it says they were accustomed to...to me that means that they got used to...

So if they got accustomed to writing Greek in the syllabic script of Cyprus then that means that there was already a syllabic script of Cyprus prior to the Greeks becoming accustomed to using it to write Greek...no?

[Get Real!]

They were ACCUSTOMED (ie: adapted) to writing Greek in the syllabic script of Cyprus.

Makes perfect sense to me!

Shouldn't there be a rule prohibiting anyone with an IQ under 85 from contributing to the list on subjects other than how to swipe a street or dig a whole or whatever else these people are supposed to be doing in their daily lives?

I don't like the way you talk to T_C, who happens to be under my witness protection program Politsa, so for your punishment I'll now finish you off once and for all...

From the same link:

"As the Dark Age came to an end, this new writing system made its way from Cyprus to the Greek mainland, where people were illiterate, and it caught on. The Greeks of the homeland began to write again."

You dirty uneducated bastard!

Politsa...

[Oracle]

They were ACCUSTOMED (ie: adapted) to writing Greek in the syllabic script of Cyprus.

Makes perfect sense to me!

Shouldn't there be a rule prohibiting anyone with an IQ under 85 from contributing to the list on subjects other than how to swipe a street or dig a whole or whatever else these people are supposed to be doing in their daily lives?

I don't like the way you talk to T_C, who happens to be under my witness protection program Politsa, so for your punishment I'll now finish you off once and for all...

From the same link:

"As the Dark Age came to an end, this new writing system made its way from Cyprus to the Greek mainland, where people were illiterate, and it caught on. The Greeks of the homeland began to write again."

You dirty uneducated bastard!

Politsa...

Again!