Sabine:
>And by reading John's mail as a whole, I should say Renfrew's theory
>(notwithstanding the high date Pjotr doesn't buy) of a north-western
>Anatolian homeland sounds like the most probable (I don't know about
>Etruscan-Asianic, Glen's 'number-theory' doesn't carry the whole >Pontic
>version for me...)
Etruscan-Asianic? Have you been daydreaming? It's not nice to make up
stories about what people said. And I don't understand why you are
connecting my thoughts on the European language "Semitish" with the issue of
IE origins which don't have much to do with each other. In regards to IE, it
is known that it has been affected by a Semitic language since *septm has
been staring linguists in the face for centuries, as well as Kartvelian and
regular affinities between IE and Uralic. Piotr puts it eloquently in
regards to Renfrew (It made me laugh in agreement).
Highly irrational, including your conclusion. I suggest you get familiar
with Uralic and the reconstructive efforts done there instead of attempting
to characterize me as a dolt with inaccurate summaries of my rebuttles. :P
- gLeN
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