Ordinary Singaporean vs Inderjit / Seng HT Saga

[eatshitndie]

tracing heritage by tongue is also a very interesting discipline. for example, the greek language has its roots in hieroglyphs, and hieroglyphs evolved to a phoenician, proto-canaanite, proto-hebrew semitic language. thus, the thesis that greek is not far from hebrew or aramaic is worth consideration. makes sense as geographically, human migrations started from africa, and naturally, they had to go thru' the lebanese, palestine and present day israeli coast before they could reach the greek archipelago. and perhaps by sea, they found a way....thus the evolution of the phoenicians and their superb mastery of the mediterranean. had the honor of debating with a greco-roman scholar on this very subject....that greeks, southern italians, sicilians are related to jews and arabs way before any arab invasion in later centuries or jewish expulsion from canaan much earlier. he being a hellenistic hardliner objected to my speculation. the turkic tongue comes from an entirely different linguistic line (oghuz) and they probably moved to asia minor from central asia via a different migratory route.

 

[Leongsam]

Agreed.Your version is more accurate.Mine was more brief to the point of popular version.

You've caught the PUB bug. It must be something in the water. :p

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[Nice-Gook]

tracing heritage by tongue is also a very interesting discipline.

Yup,listen to what the Japanese has to say about their lingo by professor Susumu Ohno--Of all the language ,Tamil?...Amazing,really amazing.

http://arutkural.tripod.com/tolcampus/jap-tamil.htm

[FONT=TSC_Avarangal]"In search of languages genetically related to Japanese, linguists over the last one hundred years have compared Japanese with almost every other language in the world-not only those of neighbouring peoples such as Ainu, Korean and Indonesian, but even Greek; yet none of these efforts have succeeded in establishing any kind of kinship.[/FONT]

[FONT=TSC_Avarangal]It was more than ten years ago that interest in the Dravidian languages of South Indian began to spread among some Japanese researchers. Similarities between Japanese and Dravidian had been first pointed out in the mid-nineteenth century. In his major work, A Co~nparative Grammar of the Dravidian or South-Indian Family of Language, the English missionary R. Caidwell, cites resemblances and discusses the connection between the two languages."[/FONT]

 

[Nice-Gook]

All very fascinating for those who take a keen interest - unfortunately not many in Singkieland either care or bother - quite typically an islander affliction (generic statement but highly applicable to too many singkies)....

Spot on.Many of us here overlooks the glories of Persian empire and much later the Ottoman Empire.There was a time when the sultan sneezes European monarchs catches cold.....than Turkey to become the sick man of Europe.

Time changes,in essence as I wrote in another thread "Is Singapore Crumbling"--that an empire is made and falls on trade,trade route particularly--in this instance the "Silk-Route".Once the sea route opened than all the old empires crumbled automatically.Even than,the size of the ports mattered.When vessels were powered by the wind deep ports does no good.When steam boats took over ports like Singapore took prominence.

 

[Nice-Gook]

You've caught the PUB bug. It must be something in the water. :p

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Ok lah.It was the 'ponding ' as an Indian defence that defeated Alexander the Great...happy now?

The ponding idea was the ingenuity of the Sanakya ...Hey,there is water and river involved lah..Besides ,his his favorite horse Bucephalus died in India mah.No kidding,read this.

http://hinduism.about.com/od/history/a/alexander.htm

But at length, in 327 B.C., the great Greek conqueror Alexander found his way there. Having subdued Syria, Egypt, and Persia, he next marched to invade the unknown land of gold.


The part of India which Alexander invaded is called the Punjab, or land of the five rivers. At that time it was ruled by a king called Porus. He was overlord of the Punjab, and under him were many other princes. Some of these princes were ready to rebel against Porus, and they welcomed Alexander gladly. But Porus gathered a great army and came marching against the Greek invader.


On one side of a wide river lay the Greeks, on the other side lay the Indians. It seemed impossible for either to cross. But in the darkness of a stormy night Alexander and his men passed over, wading part of the way breast high.


A great battle was fought. For the first time the Greeks met elephants in war. The huge beasts were very terrible to look upon. Their awful trumpetings made the Greek horses shiver and tremble. But Alexander's soldiers were far better drilled and far stronger than the Indians. His horsemen charged the elephants in flank, and they, stung to madness by the Greek darts, turned to flee, trampling many of the soldiers of Porus to death in their fright. The Indian war-chariots stuck fast in the m&d. Porus himself was wounded.