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Re: Kentum/satem (was: The future of Sturnan)

From:Lars Henrik Mathiesen <thorinn@...>
Date:Tuesday, April 30, 2002, 2:12
> Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 12:21:44 -0400 > From: Roger Mills <romilly@...> > > Keith Gaughan wrote: > >And third prize in the monster raving looney award goes to: > > > > http://http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/2803/ > > That looks familiar (is it Patrick Ryan?), though it won't open for me at > the moment. No matter.
It is he --- and the doubled http:// might be the cause of its not opening.
> For those who might be interested (but have a couple pounds of salt handy)-- > http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/nostratic.html is interesting, > occasionally worth-while, often amusing in a wacked-out way. For some > reason, there is nothing archived since Aug.2001, but it links to the actual > Nostratic List. (I've never bothered)
Heh. I was on that list, probably still am --- but there has indeed been no sign of life since last August. As long as you ignore the threads involving Pat Ryan, the light/heat ratio isn't too bad, nor the sense/nonsense one. For its sister list, called indoeuropean or indo-european, even more so.
> The archive of Cybalist (a yahoo-group) contains a lot of speculation on the > subject (which is ongoing, although the list is more properly devoted to > usually serious discussion of IE).
I've never followed Babaev's efforts, I think I got a bad early impression. (cybalist = Cyril Babaev's list). If there's better stuff than his own speculations on the group, it might be worth looking at. Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked)