Re: Edenics

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.

                                                                Andreas

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