[xdennis]

> The way you put it, it sounds like some random architect somewhere looked at Linear B, worked hard on their own, and came up with the answer. That's not even remotely true.

Your assumption here is that a normal discoverer works entirely by himself, but the norm has always been that a discovery is the work of multiple people.

When someone says that an architect decoded Linear B he means to say that a non-professional decoded it.

You can't just say: "oh, it's not fair to say that because he was actually really good at it".