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Brian M. Scott (BMScott@stratos.net) 2004/02/02 11:00

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Jerzy Jakubowski wrote:

> Eric Gill <ericvgill@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:<Xns947DABE6018B0ericvgillyahoocom@24.93.43.121>...

>> "Uncle Davey" <noway@jose.com> wrote in
>> news:bv2jat$382$1@nemesis.news.tpi.pl:

[...]

>>> That's why so many scientists have been trying to do
>>> exactly that, with their nostratic, and all that baloney.

>> Funny - I cannot seem to find anything linking Nostratic
>> with hertiable genetic changes in populations.

>> Have you, or is this just another little story you've made
>> up?

>> <snip>

> They've been trying to posit a common ancestor between PIE and
>  other families.

> The reason why is that it is totally counterintuitive that
> each language family appeared separately, so a common ancestor
>  language must exist, and yet they cannot even design an
> artificial language that would look anything like that. The
> languages are so different it wouldn't work.

What nonsense.  It would be straightforward if tedious to
construct a language from which FU and IE, say, could be derived
by linguistically plausible sequences of changes, but since it
would be meaningless, no one would bother.

[...]

Brian


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