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Re:Minoan language Linear A linked to Linear B in new research by escape_goat on Sunday May 15, 2022 @01:20PM (#31389088)
I understand the impulse to point out the obvious, but when the question is asked honestly rather than arrogantly or dismissively, it is even better to wait for someone to provide the specific answer; in this case, the reason that Zipf's law is of no help.
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Re:Minoan language Linear A linked to Linear B in new research by mtlmtlmtlmtl on Sunday May 15, 2022 @01:30PM (#31389199)
It wasn't my intent to be overly dismissive. But I see this sort of thing all the time, and I find this phenomenon interesting, so I wanted to engage with that aspect of it, specifically.

I agree with you in general though. Dismissing these things out of hand isn't helpful either. But multiple people had already made substantive replies to the actual content of their idea, anyway.

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Re:Minoan language Linear A linked to Linear B in new research by SemanticStrengh on Sunday May 15, 2022 @02:17PM (#31389631)
useless dismissal, I made a question not an affirmation. Besides it allow for an exploration of the search space of solutions, which stimulate the depth of the discussion and might allow finer grained questions that would then become possibly innovative
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Re:Minoan language Linear A linked to Linear B in new research by mtlmtlmtlmtl on Monday May 16, 2022 @02:41AM (#31394175)
Hardly useless, since it apparently inspired people to dig deeper and find more info :)
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