Studying the Script: Finding Chinese inscriptions on turtle shells

Posted by Caiero on Thursday March 17, 2022 @11:35PM
from the laphamsquarterly.org dept.

https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/studying-script

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Re:Studying the Script: Finding Chinese inscriptions on turt... by adastra22 on Saturday March 19, 2022 @01:29AM (#30731371)

The very first sentence of this article is objectively wrong. No modern Chinese reader can read oracle script without significant training. Is it worth reading the rest of the article?

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Re:Studying the Script: Finding Chinese inscriptions on turt... by Raymonf on Saturday March 19, 2022 @01:56AM (#30731500)

It's even worse than that. Right before that, the article claims that the Chinese language is "almost the same as the first inscriptions from nearly 3,200 years ago".

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Re:Studying the Script: Finding Chinese inscriptions on turt... by adastra22 on Saturday March 19, 2022 @02:13AM (#30731576)

Yeah that's actually the sentence I was responding to. It's such an objectively wrong claim that I couldn't bring myself to read any more.

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