Learning to Spell in Linear B: Scribal Training in Mycenaean Pylos

Re:Learning to Spell in Linear B: Scribal Training in Mycena... by thaumasiotes on Wednesday August 17, 2022 @01:14AM (#32492606)

Those are forms we knew about before we knew anything about Linear B; they are not independently evidence that we are reading the Linear B correctly. When you hallucinate material, it's not surprising that you hallucinate something you're already familiar with.

It's even less surprising in a context like this, where a proposal that "this is Bronze Age Greek!" is more or less required to include reconstructed Bronze Age forms. Who's going to take it seriously otherwise?

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Re:Learning to Spell in Linear B: Scribal Training in Mycena... by kurupt213 on Wednesday August 17, 2022 @01:50PM (#32499536)

I’ve never seen this take. I was following that dutch philologist’s attempt to decode Linear A thinking it was luwian. Woudhuizen or something?

Is there no evidence of similar place names in Linear A and B?

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