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Originally Posted by SeattleUte
JS said he translated plates that turned out to be gibberish somebody made up. You accept the "testimony of witnesses" hook line and sinker and this doesn't matter to you?
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Read more carefully.
Clayton wrote that a quote was attributable to JS.
Did he hear the quote personally, or was it relayed to him? That is significant, and because we can't know, and no translation was ever issued, I find the quote meaningless.
If a translation had issued and it was gibberish, then it would have been meaningful.
But the hoax was not revealed until years later, possibly because the fraudfeasors had hoped to sell the 'artifacts'. You don't find it interesting if JS had truly "translated" it, but it wasn't printed?