Re: Ural-Altaicist (fuit That's *so* MULAN!!)

BP Jonsson wrote:

> While I be far from denying the probable veracity of this statement, do you
> have any particlar reference?
I probably should have said "abandoned".  This kind of thing is hard to
track down, as I discovered when trying to find out when and how Tai-Kadai ceased
to be considered part of Sino-Tibetan-Burman.  "The old guard dies, but
never surrenders."  Usually there isn't a seminal paper.

> If the facts don't fit the theories, it's not the facts that need changing.
Well, sometimes it is: most facts are inferences from observation, not
observation itself.

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