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

John Cowan wrote:

> David Peterson scripsit:
> > The basic premise of the website is that Finnish and Irish are
> > distantly related......(RM snip).
>
> Even Greenberg wouldn't be able to swallow this camel.
Truly.  Even poor Greenberg, like the proverbial broken clock,  has his good
moments.
This site was reminiscent of one that recently popped up on Cybalist--
someone's decipherment of Linear A (which probably was used around 1500
B.C.E if not earlier?)--- they uncovered the most amazing resemblances to
Latin and the modern Romance langs.  One sequence of glyphs was said to be
"du - me- ni- ka" and meant, of course, "Sunday".

There must be a gazillion such sites.  I love them, always good for some
chuckles.  Paul Bennett gave us this yesterday--
http://www.livejournal.com/users/entangledbank/10116.html
if you pursue "entangledbank" you end up on a blog where, eventually, he
cites two more [search for "Edo Nyland" and you'll get to the relevant
place, it may be in "previous 20"].

I think one of the most amazing ones was by a certain Izzy Cohen [this also
popped up on cybalist; the members were not amused] who showed that just
about any English word was derivable from Hebrew.  It involved
reversing/changing/metathesizing/you-name-it the Hebrew letters (and of
course never mind the vowels).