A 11:05 2002-03-27 -0500, Elliotte Rusty Harold a écrit : >At 8:47 AM -0500 3/27/02, Alain LaBontÈÝ wrote: > >[Alain] French (with a totally different spelling [and many more >differences] compared to now: you have to pronounce letters like when you >read Latin to *begin* to understand even if you're French-speaking) and >"modern" German (well a form of it, perhaps with a remark very similar for >reading the text as for French) were *officially* born the same day, on >the 14th of February, 842 A.D. (is it one of the origins of Valentine >Day?), in a bilingual peace treaty(*) between two grandsons of Charlemagne... > > >Of course, this assumes that the year 842 and Charlemagne actually >existed, which turns out to be not nearly as self-evident a proposition as >it seems at first glance. See, for example, >http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/volatile/Niemitz-1997.pdf or at Google in >HTML: >http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:8VRf94MWzUgC:www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/volatile/Niemitz-1997.pdf+did+Charlemagne+exist&hl=en
[Alain] Good attemps at a hoax!!! This document says: "If 16 centuries had passed since Caesar's introduction of his calendar, the Julian calendar in Gregory's time would have been out of sync with the astronomical situation by 13 days, not 10." It is perhaps just a miscalculation and not a proof that 300 years were created out of nothing... Let me just notice that the difference in days between the Western European Christmas and the Orthodox Christmas is just that, 13 days!!! The Orthodox never did reform their calendar... They celebrate Christmas on January 7!!! Alain laBonté Québec
