From: Glen Gordon
Message: 9994
Date: 2001-10-04
>And even if he had, and had secretlyQuite simple: "Similar-sounding" is not a linguistic term. You're going to
>followed a list of M?ler's IE-AA "cognates" (probably loans, there
>are just a few hundred), how could he come up with up to a hundred
>(at least) similar-sounding Austronesian roots for those pairs? I
>found it puzzling.
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>As regards contact, Oppenheimer has done some genetic research on the
>Orang Asli, aboriginal peoples of Malaysia. Some markers from that
>group reappear not just all over the South Sea islands, but also in
>Kuwait, Turkey, and even, in one case, the Czech lands. Other markers
>reapear in some Swedes and Finns. There is only one way for that to
>have happened. The only question then is: Did they forget every
>single word on the journey? Dog? Pig? But if one or two words can
>make the trip, where's the limit?
>
>And as for the trick of denigrating an opinion because the man who
>holds other opinions that are patently wrong, I've hitch-hiked too
>much to fall for that. Everyone has a story to tell. Everyone is
>right at least to some degree. That is my basic outlook, and I don't
>think I will change that.
>
>Torsten
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