Re: [tied] Re: IE & Nostratic "alternations"... yuck!

Torsten:

>>Ooh, Nostratic? May I interject? Why are we speaking of
>>M�ller as though he were today an active linguist?
>>
>This is a criterion I haven't heard of yet.
>Grimm is dead too. So Grimm's law no longer applies?

No. I was just speaking in the context of Nostratic studies.

Torsten:

>>I personally do not welcome these kinds of "easy" sound
>>correspondances in Nostratic.
>
>Should they be hard?

Yes, there should be rules. When there are no rules, there's anarchy and no
one learns from anarchy. These "easy" sound correspondances don't have any
rules to them. It's just the whim of the Nostraticist.

-gLeN



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