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

> Date:         Mon, 29 Apr 2002 15:02:34 +0100
> From: Keith Gaughan <kgaughan@...>
>
> From: Lars Henrik Mathiesen [mailto:thorinn@DIKU.DK]
>
> > MCV (again) suggested a correspondence between (glottalic) PIE and
> > Proto-Basque, and even Larry Trask didn't trash the effort, as far
> > as it went.
>
> And third prize in the monster raving looney award goes to:
>
>         http://http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/2803/
Actually, he gets first prize. The PIE/Basque thing I'm talking about
was just an exploration of one possibility --- that's valid science as
long as you don't try to conclude from possibility to fact. Pat Ryan
on the other hand goes straight from vague cannot-be-disproved
resemblances to claims of certain relationships.

Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked)