From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 61690
Date: 2008-11-17
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From: "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>
>> This is about as shallow as thinking the word
>> indo-european suggests a primary split between Indic and
>> the rest...
>
> Of course it doesn't: it's a different kind of construction.
> Like 'Afro-Asiatic', it merely specifies the relevant
> geographic region. The term 'Indo-Hittite', on the other
> hand, *does* make a theoretical claim, albeit one with more
> justification than that implicit in 'Hamiti-Semitic'.
>
>> And Semitic is the only Asiatic branch,
>> so the problem is the same with either name.
>
> No, it isn't.
>
> Brian
>
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ok
Let's abide by Article 1
"M. Scott is always right."
A.