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Re: CHAT: proto-language

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Friday, December 11, 1998, 17:22
Mathias M. Lassailly wrote:

> You really have a knack for raising teremendously interesting issues
Controversial ones, too.
> :-) I'm impressed by Ruhlen, Greenberg and Renfrew : they make me hope > > linguists and archeologists may help know a little more about that > primary relation. What do you'll think of Ruhlen's theory (I know it > only via his last popularising book) ?
I think it makes a lot of very little, and is methodologically unsound. See the sci.lang FAQ at http://www.tezcat.com/~markrose/lang21.html#22 for full details. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn. You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn. Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)