Re: Naming of Eve


"SteveT" <rumplestiltsk64@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:9qr993l202din47jtsnnt0av7mkkmn56rv@xxxxxxxxxx
My grandfather was born somewhen around 1890. School attendance had
only just become "obligatory" & I think the school leaving age was 11.
He could read simple things, but was pretty much illiterate by our
standards. I doubt if the village population numbered more than a few
hundred, and most, possibly all, of the families had "always lived
there".

Well then you grandfather was literate and living in a world dominated by
writing and was taught all he know from written histories. Therefore there
is no evidence of an oral tradition in you family. And even will all of
this
writing you still cannot tell me which person and which party your great
great grandfather vote for when or if he was first eligible to vote.

I don't follow your argument at all. I've just told you the guy was
pretty much illiterate.

You just said he went to school. He was therefore not illiterate.
That doesn't follow at all.

He was educated in a literate society therefore literate by default.


He live in
a literate society. Everything he learned was based on literacy.
Not everything, no.

Everything, yes.


Oral
traditions are nothing more than a ridiculous fantasy
I don't see what is fantastical about knowing the history of your
home.

It was a written history that he was taught at school.


since I have proven
that what you think is an oral tradition did not even exist.
No, you havn't.

Yes I have.

.

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