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Re: Catastrophism and syllable structure (was Re: subconscious sound preferences)

From:Tom Wier <artabanos@...>
Date:Monday, December 28, 1998, 3:44
charles wrote:

> Tom Wier wrote: > > > > charles wrote: > > > * There was a cataclysmic flood into the Black Sea > > circa 5600 BC, causing dispersion of Proto-Indo-European. > > > > Is that by Velikovsky? > > Tsk! You are obviously not caught up on sci.lang ... > No, this is coming from some mainstream geologists. > The date is conveniently close to the PIE breakup.
Yeah, I found out just after I posted. I don't frequent sci.lang as much as I used to, 'cause it usually has a low level of discourse IME, unlike this forum. :)
> I had found a neat URL about low-density waves > of IE hunter-gatherers expanding into depopulated > (by relatively rapid climate change) zones, but this > would take the cake if it pans out, y'know ...
I don't doubt it, but considering where a lot of theories like these have come from, what with Soviet ideology always having historically been a legitimate reason to discount theories in Russia, you can see how I responded how I did. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Tom Wier <twier@...> ICQ#: 4315704 AIM: Deuterotom Website: <http://www.angelfire.com/tx/eclectorium/> "Cogito ergo sum, sed credo ergo ero." "S=F4=F0 is gecy=FEed / =FE=E6t mihtig God manna cynes / w=EAold w=EEde-ferh=F0." _Beowulf_, ll. 700-702 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D