Fruitcakes was Re: Kentum/satem

On Tuesday 30 April 2002 18:23, Jake X wrote:
>> The guy's a bit of a fruitcake, IMO.
>
> What? Is this supposed to offend people or are you using it
> good-naturedley?
        No, that's a pretty factual statement. :) Both Patrick Ryan (the fruitcake
mentioned above) and Edo Nyland are top contenders for fruitcakiness. For
those unfamiliar with Edo Nyland, he claims that Benedictine monks invented
English, German, Latin, Greek, Russian, Sanskrit, Hebrew, Hungarian,
Japanese, and many others from...drumroll, please...Basque! I always knew
those monks (especially the Irish ones) were bright cookies, but this really
takes the cake...er, fruitcake. :)
        I'm not quite sure which mental disease I wish to attribute to that theory,
but you can view it in all its resplendently delusional glory at
http://www.islandnet.com/~edonon/linguist.htm. Ya gotta love it; it even
manages to fit in the whole "Goddess culture overthrown by an evil
patriarchal religion," just for kicks and giggles.
        :Peter

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