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0049 Chapter three concerns the topics of linguistic common origin and taxonomy<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From this examination, so far, I speculate (riffing off of Farrell’s speculations) that the normal context of an ideology of a common tongue3a<\/sub><\/em> derives from an actual translation stone2a<\/sub>,<\/em> which converts one language to another so well that it2a<\/sub>maintains the potential for ‘technical work and group cohesion’1a<\/sub><\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

0050 So, to me, the question that chapter three addresses<\/em> asks, “Is this ideology built into our brains, bodies and bones?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What2a<\/sub><\/em> is required for the normal context of a common language3a<\/sub><\/em> to manifest the potential of  ‘the technical and group cohesion offered by one people1a<\/sub>?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Would a translator stone2a<\/sub><\/em> do the trick?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0051 Here is a picture of what I am talking about<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

0052 Farrell starts with the earliest scientific formulation that the coincidence of one language and one people is bound through time<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first language family<\/em>\u00a0to be identified is the Indo-European.\u00a0\u00a0Wonderful social science is accomplished by Edward Sapir (1884-1939 AD), Alfredo Trombetti (1866-1929) and others.\u00a0\u00a0All Indo-European languages trace back through time to one proto-Indo-European people.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After that,\u00a0further attempts at classifying language families<\/em>\u00a0are resisted for years<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0053 Why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, I suppose that it must be due to a “translator’s stone issue” of some sort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As it turns out, many Indo-European languages are written, as well as oral.  So, writings, preserved through time, independently corroborate the similarities and differences identified by linguists.  In effect, writing<\/em> independently verifies changes in phonetics and semantics over time<\/em>.  Writing operates as a psychometric “translator’s stone”.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

0054 In the 1960s, Joseph Greenberg refashions the (writing-focused) translator’s stone<\/em> into an exercise of pattern recognition and statistics<\/em>.  Farrell offers samples demonstrating the exercise.  Our gestalt-tendencies<\/em> allow instant recognition of patterns<\/em> that are then validated using statistical methods<\/em>.  What are the chances that this pattern would be recognized and not any other?  Greenberg identifies language families<\/em> as gigantic as Indo-European.  Indeed, even families of families<\/em> can be discerned with his new translator stone… er… I mean to say, “methodology”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Merritt Ruhlen, Greenberg’s student, publishes\u00a0the crown publication<\/em>\u00a0in 1994, bringing\u00a0the coincidence of language and ethnos<\/em>\u00a0(Russian for “a people lacking explicit abstractions indicating that they are a people”) all the way back to\u00a0the origin of our species<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Ethnos? See Looking at Michael Millerman’s Chapter (2022) “…Dimensions of Dugin’s Populism”<\/em> appearing in Razie Mah’s blog in late February 2023.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0055 So, if hominins fashion a common tongue<\/em> at the start of our own species, then what<\/em> do our ancestors talk<\/em> in the times prior to say, 250,000 years ago?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The answer, according to Razie Mah, is hand talk<\/em>.  Speech is added to hand talk at the start of our own species.  Humans practice hand-speech talk for, say, 240,000 years, and now, all civilizations practice speech-alone talk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hmmm. I suppose that a Tower of Babel Moment<\/em> may be hidden in that hypothesis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0056 But, a<\/em> hand-speech talk to speech-alone talk<\/em> Tower of Babel Moment<\/em> is not what Genesis 11<\/em> reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Genesis 11 reports something very different.  Genesis 11 reports the conviction that one language means one people<\/em> and, if everyone holds that conviction, then a civilization can accomplish whatever it sets out to do.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If the people really speak different languages, all that one needs is a topogram that maps one language onto the others, and visa versa,<\/em> in order to establish that all belong to a common tongue and therefore constitute one people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0057 Yes, the correlation between language and people, our talk-tradition and ourselves, <\/em>is woven, by evolution, into the fabric of our being,<\/em> so much that if we believe that we practice a common tongue,<\/em> even though we obviously do not, then we are transubstantiated into one people<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0058 Farrell comes to the verge of articulating this realization,<\/em> but does not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He forges a path<\/em> for others to follow.  The connection between a common language and genetic affiliation<\/em> smells too sweet for him to realize that the flower produces a seed and that the seed may germinate into an illusion<\/em>.  The mind-independent reality of the translator’s stone<\/em> substantiates the mind-dependent reality that we all share a common tongue and therefore, are one people<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Others, following his path, can pause and say, “Hey, this may sound crazy, but what if the link between talk tradition and people<\/em> is built into our very constitution,<\/em> and what if all someone has to do is convince us that we have the same language,<\/em> then we are caught, hook line and sinker, by the illusion that we are one people?”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is a picture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

0059 And now, an irony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Akkadian language, the language that most likely associates to Nimrod,<\/em> the mighty you-know-what,<\/em> belongs to the Semitic family of spoken languages,<\/em> which is as impressive as the Indo-European.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Sumerian language, the language that most likely associates to the ones who concocted the Tower of Bab-ilim story, is a linguistic isolate.  An “isolate”?  Yes, Sumerian is unrelated to any family of languages<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0060 This is an embarrassing topic for students of ancient Mesopotamian civilization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, experts rarely mention the fact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After all, why would Sumerian be an linguistic isolate?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And, what would that fact have to do the formation of civilization of southern Mesopotamian?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who knows?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, who cares?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The stone that the builders reject, becomes the cornerstone of a new foundation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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