Aboriginal Australians: The First Explorers

[pat grimshaw]

…highly successful social orders with story telling to rival that of Europe in the 17C……

How can you make that assertion?

…'developing complex grammatical structures'…

Sam, you’ve retailed that quote twice without revealing the source. It sounds like an excuse from some linguist who tried and failed to understand those grammatical structures. But I’m not surprised they did fail as there are/were 200 languages here and it seems the coastal tribe in my area were unable to understand the language of the hill tribe which just two days walk away.

Goodness, Petunia, you never can pass up an opportunity to bash minority groups, can you?

Are you overlooking my Sinophobia, Lil? That’s no majority!

I can tell you the Aboriginal/Indigenous Australians are becoming less of a minority each year. Their population has increased 31% in just five years.*

If I were an Irish patriot —which I’m not— I’d be insulted that so many of those thousands with Irish/Indigenous heritage are so eager to renounce their celtic blood to claim Aboriginality.



* see note 94 on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_Australians

 

[pat grimshaw]

Sam, here's a chap from the 1930s who also was interested in native languages.

He wanted some facts for the naming of Canberra which some people suspect is really a corruption of the word 'Canterbury' (the name of a property owned by Robert Campbell).

http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/result?q=Frederic+Slater&l-decade=193

 

[SLOPPYSECONDS]

The study has wide implications for understanding of how our human ancestors moved across the globe.

humans got legs < it hint

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in case great univeristys gotta do study on twat ya no far ta go

no forget da plant round ans playin snooker no rules

 

[Sam Blum]

The study has wide implications for understanding of how our human ancestors moved across the globe.

humans got legs < it hint

-
in case great univeristys gotta do study on twat ya no far ta go

no forget da plant round ans playin snooker no rules

I'm not sure because I have a really poor knowledge of continental shifts and sea level changes, but I think the surface of the Earth's land masses has altered a fair bit since 70,000 years, so knowing approximately when people migrated is fundamental to having a better insight into their mode of movement.

Pat Grimshaw, I think that if you were to visit a university Aboriginal Studies department and arrange a meeting with a senior lecturer or a library technician, you may be able to read up on the various Aboriginal languages and perhaps, at the same time, learn a little about a large number of peoples who were at best unfairly perceived and misrepresented by earlier and frankly current non-Aboriginal folk. What is your problem? You do realise that you are the alien here, right? Even if your family came with the first wave of boat people, you are not indigenous, you are the immigrant blood - so show some respect to the peoples who homes your ancestors stole and to the peoples your ancestors displaced. Fuck me...

 

[SLOPPYSECONDS]

hey dudes let walk fa 3 feet ans get drink a wata sans wait fa continentals so ins 70000 years give folk somethang ta do

in 70000 ad they study how human race survive da 18 19 20 21 st centurys loony adult toons of great supa cultures ans migrate their brain ta
'SSSSSH '

anyway

Ice cube?
' ooh thankyou '