Re: [MTLR] Re: The paradox of the Basco-Caucasian hypothesis

From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 62252
Date: 2008-12-22

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From: "mkelkar2003" <swatimkelkar@...>
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Uralic_languages
>
> http://brettkessler.com/McDonald/paper/Kessler--Multilateral.pdf
> >
> "The other piece of bad news for the multilateralist research program
> is that this more rigorous version of the methodology failed to turn up
> any connection between Indo-European and Uralic (Kessler & Lehtonen,
> 2003 or later)."
>
> M. Kelkar
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It's perfectly possible to find non transparent correspondences between
Uralic and IE.
I'm afraid the real bad piece of news is many people are incompetent and
uncreative,
And the next one is a lot of languages are not nicely described,

A.