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

> 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)