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Re: [NATLANG] Q Re: The Finno-Celtic Conspiracy

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Monday, March 22, 2004, 1:11
Paul Bennett scripsit:

> Of course, to prove a direct Irish/Finnish connection, you would also > first have to prove that Finnish was not Uralic (or that Irish is not IE), > and I don't think there's a case that could be convincingly made there in > either case.
Nooo, he's not a total idiot. He thinks F-U is an aberrant I-E family, but that its relationship to Samoyedic is a matter of borrowing. -- Principles. You can't say A is John Cowan <jcowan@...> made of B or vice versa. All mass http://www.reutershealth.com is interaction. --Richard Feynman http://www.ccil.org/~cowan