Re[2]: [tied] Re: Mitanni and Matsya

From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 56915
Date: 2008-04-06

At 2:02:20 PM on Sunday, April 6, 2008, Patrick Ryan wrote:

> From: "david_russell_watson" <liberty@...>

>> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan"
>> <proto-language@...> wrote:

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

>>>> Nostratics has most definitely not been proven. There
>>>> is not even a uniform definition of what composes
>>>> Nostratic. There are no universally acceptible
>>>> proto-languages for most postulated members of
>>>> Nostratic. [...]

>>> Nostratic has been irrefutably demonstrated.

>> So you say, and yet refutation sits quoted above this
>> line, and can be found other places as well.

> No disrespect to Rick but he is simply not competent to
> judge the issue.

> The last time I made an informal survey, the professional
> members of the list semmed willing to entertain the idea
> of Nostratic but considered it unproven.

Which hardly suggests that 'Nostratic has been irrefutably
demonstrated'.

Brian