Re: Edenics

--- "Mark P. Line" <mark@...> wrote:
> Andreas Johansson said:
> > Quoting "Mark P. Line" <mark@...>:
> >
> >> 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.)
> >
> > Why do they always pick some gaga old language? It
> would be much funnier
> > to prove that all languages descend from 19th C
> Rioplatense Spanish.
>
>
> In quantum electrodynamics (QED), particles can move
> either forwards or
> backwards through time -- even though we can only
> make observations along
> the forward direction. What we observe as a positron
> is in fact an
> electron that is moving backwards through time.
>
> That being the case, I hereby claim that ALL HUMAN
> LANGUAGES are descended
> from Modern Yiklamu, which I expect to emerge from
> simulation sometime
> late this year.
>
> This claim is PROVED by the fact that the Classical
> Yiklamu word for "cat"
> is 'kikfa' while many native speakers of English
> dislike cats.
>
> QED.
>
> (QED!!!! Coincidence? I think not.)
>
>
> -- Mark
> You guys are awesome! This post is itself a
wonderful counterargument, with much of the same
spirit as the pro-arguments for Edenics. Love,
                                            Travis



	
		
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