Re: OT: Origin of names (WAS: Re: Proto-Uralic?)

En réponse à Tim May :


>"We" don't "know that" at all, Christophe.
Actually we *do*. I've never seen any argument against it that doesn't boil
down to pure prejudice.

>   Some researchers in that
>field have reached such a conclusion, but many others disagree.  It is
>possible that they are simply blinded by prejudice, but I see no
>reason to assume that to be the case.
I see plenty of them, and Stone only showed us a few. Don't forget that
just one hundred years ago, it was scientifically "proven" that black
people were inferior in all senses to white people, and saying anything
different from that was anathema. And we haven't changed that much in one
hundred years.

>Here are a couple of pages I've found on the subject of cetacean
>intelligence and communication - I cannot vouch for their accuracy,
>but they seem balanced to my inexpert eye.
>
>http://dolphins.org/Learn/lmm-dcmm.htm
>http://www.highnorth.no/Library/Myths/br-be-an.htm
Interesting pages, but because they show very well that people just focus
on the wrong phenomena when trying to evaluate the "intelligence" of
animals (whatever definition you give to it).

Christophe Grandsire.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.

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