[Buddha-l] Jayarava's rave on the IE lingos

[jkirk]

What I wrote was: "...most warlike these days..." (emphasis on
these days)

I don't see how my comment "flows from" your blog post. 
You seem to assume some kind of guilt by association. But you
didn't say it, I did.
It was an off the wall remark, yes, about a serious concern of
our contemporary
historical period. 

I did neglect to include Buddhist content, although a concern for
peace might barely qualify. 

JK
 



--- On Sat, 30/5/09, jkirk <jkirk at spro.net> wrote:

> Unfortunately, nbl---the linguistic group that is most warlike
these 
> days is the Semitic group (Hebrew and Arabic), indicating
better than 
> ever that shared linguistic histories aren't up to the peace
role.

I think this has to be a moot point, and is not a comparison I'd
be interested in pursuing, or a conclusion I want to be
associated with. I don't think it flows from my blog post in any
way, and I would like to distance myself from the view that
speakers of semitic languages are more warlike than speakers of
other language groups. I don't imagine "warlikeness" has anything
at all to do with language groups, nor with race, or creed. How
would one even define "warlike"? 

Douglas Adams said this re the babelfish: "by effectively
removing all barriers to communication between different races
and cultures, [the babelfish] has caused more and bloodier wars
than anything else in the history of creation."

Jayarava



      

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