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1.1. Re: OT crackpots (was: Grammatical gender)
From: Adam Walker
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1.1. Re: OT crackpots (was: Grammatical gender)
Posted by: "Adam Walker" [email protected]
Date: Wed Dec 14, 2011 5:15 am ((PST))
Blast from the past! I haven t seen you post about that atl in ages! Adam
On 12/14/11, BPJ <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2011-12-13 23:16, Christophe Grandsire-Koevoets wrote:
>> On 13 December 2011 21:24, Jörg Rhiemeier<[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I once got an e-mail asking me about the "Gospel of Joseph of
>>> Arimathea", from someone who hadn't realized that that "gospel"
>>> was fictional. I told him that that gospel never existed, and
>>> he was content with my answer.
>>>
>>>
>> Not once but *twice* I have received an e-mail about my alter-ego Tsela
>> Jemufan Atlinan C.G., asking about more information and presenting various
>> theories about his origin and his language (Moten). Both really thought he
>> was real! (the second one linked him to the UFO sightings in Belgium
>> during
>> the eighties, which is funny, since I placed his discovery point in
>> Belgium
>> exactly for that reason :) ) Given that I've always been clearly about his
>> fictionality, I've never really known how to answer...
>
> I've had someone who knows me IRL believe that I take
> my althistory where the Arabs conquered Middle America
> in the eight century and there arose a Norse-Amerindian
> state around the St. Lawrence River in the 11th century
> seriously, and roundly lambasting me for it, saying
> that the sagas' mentioning of _Hvítramannaland_ and
> continued westward expeditions from Greenland aren't
> evidence of any such things, and that later history
> would have been vastly different had this been the
> case. I just informed her that it was a deliberate
> fiction based on those saga accounts, and that later
> history indeed was vastly different in that fiction. I
> also informed her on what althistory is, and that I'd
> actually cheated by having two PODs, and she was
> satisfied. I didn't mention that the whole thing was
> partly the result of a desire to create a setting where
> Quechua might be written with Arabic script!
>
> /bpj
>
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