Re: Edenics

william drewery said:
> I have recently ran into these sites about "edenics",
> which I gather is the study of Eden. But they all seem
> to be linked by the ida that ALL languages descend
> from some sort of Proto-Hebrew. Most of the arguments
> I've seen on the sites are laughable at best, but I
> was hoping to find out if there was anything to this
> idea, ad if not, where I could find some good
> counter-arguments.

I'm not going to worry about counter-arguments until I've seen an argument
*for* the idea.

(Showing that 'fa' = "eat" in Kubamangaranga while 'pa' = "food" in
Dienhua does *not* qualify as an argument that these two languages are
related. The fringe literature of self-appointed amateur linguistics is
full of this crap. "All languages are descended from X!" where X can be
Sanskrit, Proto-Hebrew, PIE, Ancient Japanese, or whatever.)


-- Mark

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