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Re: Catastrophism and syllable structure

From:Tom Wier <artabanos@...>
Date:Monday, December 28, 1998, 7:17
charles wrote:

> Padraic Brown wrote: > > > > > * There was a cataclysmic flood into the Black Sea > > > > circa 5600 BC, causing dispersion of Proto-Indo-European. > > > It does make for a neat and tidy theory, though; apparently explains =
how
> > the Anatolians got to Turkey; and gives a pretty damn good reason for=
the
> > IE speakers to pick up and get as far away as they could! > > So, what if The Flood were that event? > Gilgamesh, Genesis ...
Of course, that came to mind immediately. It doesn't,however, explain st= ories of Noah figures in the Americas, and elsewhere. :)
> If the resemblance between Semitic and IE pronouns > is also based on reality, then even the crackpot > theory of Nostratic gains some plausibility.
Well, actually, Nostratic is one of the liklier of the Velikovskianisms.M= errit Ruhlen (I think he's at Berkley) has done a lot of work on both his and Greenberg's analyses, and while it's not at all sure in any way, and is still considered the perennial "way-out" theory, there sure are a lot of romantic people who would like to believe in it. Who's right?; Who knows?
> What about the other languages of the Caucasus, > particularly the consonant-heavy ones?
What about them?
> If cats teach anything, it is laziness. Soon, > agriculture was invented so that nobody had to > leave the warm basin. However, there were snakes.
Er, agriculture *increases* workload from hunter-gatherer societies. :) =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