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

At 07:23 PM 4/30/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>The guy's a bit of a fruitcake,
>>IMO.
>
>What? Is this supposed to offend people or are you using it good-naturedley?
    I imagine he's using it good-naturedly (is that a word? Well, we are
conlangers, so it is now!).

   Though the term is appropriate - this is some of the worst scholarship
in the universe. About the same as seriously postulating that X (pick a
cultural group) were the people who made the face on Mars, and that they
also visited Pluto and Alpha Centauri. Metaphorically and literally, this
example is WAY OUT THERE, stretching in ways that even Sillyputty couldn't
go. The whole Semitic = Celtic argument has been disproven.

   All that said, there are _some_ potential links, but not enough to say
that Irish is a deformed Semitic language. I've seen a theory recently that
placed all the Indo-European people and the Semitic people around the Black
Sea (I think, I suck a geography) that some scholars buy in to. I don't I
trust it, but....

   Aidan