Re[2]: [tied] Early Indo-European loanwords preserved in Finnish

At 4:32:25 PM on Thursday, February 21, 2008, Richard
Wordingham wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister
> <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:

>> Because it [Semito-Hamitic] creates a false dichotomy
>> between Semitic and non-Semitic, presupposing that all
>> non-Semitic AA languages form one branch. Given what we
>> know about AA, that is misleading at best and comes
>> across as ignorant

> The problem here I presume is that we now seem not to have
> a branch called Hamitic. In the interests of Anglo-French
> acronymic agreement, would English 'Chado-Semitic' (CS) be
> acceptable?

Not really.

> Or is 'Indo-Germanic' to be disparaged as ignorant?

English 'Indo-Germanic' is to be disparaged; German
'indogermanisch' is unfortunate but far too well established
to be seriously challenged.

Brian