Re: Odp: Odp: John has been assimilated

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 1394
Date: 2000-02-06

 
----- Original Message -----
From: Gerry Reinhart-Waller
To: Piotr Gasiorowski ; cybalist@egroups.com
Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2000 2:17 AM
Subject: [cybalist] Re: Odp: John has been assimilated

Good gracious! You all understand Proto-World!

No, I don't think Greenberg is kuku, I don't think Ruhlen is, either.
But PW is such a primitive language that I couldn't express myself more
subtly. It's Ruhlen's WORK that is kuku. Very, very kuku. And
Greenberg's multilateral comparison is the root of all that Proto-World
kuku-stuff.

Piotr

What wrong with multiculturaal comparisons?  Should we perhaps compare
Nostratic with languges spoken on Mars?  All kidding aside, since world
languges are within grasp of most folks, why do you have such difficulty
with the concept?  I'm trying to figure out the root of your objection
but I'm having an extremely difficult time.  Has the linguistics area
been peppered with young students or is a dying discipline?
Gerry  
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It's multiLATERAL (or MASS), not multiCULTURAL comparison.
 
Gerry, we discussed these things on Cybalist some time ago and I wouldn't like to repeat myself ad nauseam. I have no difficulty with the CONCEPT of Proto-World (though I'm agnostic about the ultimate monogenesis of language), but with the way some enthusiasts "reconstruct" it.
 
Piotr