Hobbits, Austronesians, and Creoles

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001984.html

If this is even a vague approximation to the truth, it's going to
set the cat among the pigeons for sure.   What do Austronesianists
think?

--
John Cowan                              jcowan@reutershealth.com
http://www.reutershealth.com            http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
Humpty Dump Dublin squeaks through his norse
                Humpty Dump Dublin hath a horrible vorse
But for all his kinks English / And his irismanx brogues
                Humpty Dump Dublin's grandada of all rogues.  --Cousin James

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