Re: [tied] Re: Warning to list: Race and anthropology

We have Bushtits, Wrentits, and Titmice as well as Chickadees.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Anthony Appleyard" <MCLSSAA2@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 5:02 AM
Subject: [tied] Re: Warning to list: Race and anthropology


--- In cybalist@..., Håkan Lindgren <h5@...> wrote or quoted:
> "Well, I guess I won't have to worry about my strategy now that the
> list has been effectively moderated back into order. However, I
> still feel that NWC is far easier to type than
> Abkhazo-Adsomethin'oranother... :)"

Is there a rule against the word "Caucasian", or not? This word is
asterisked out in one message title in the new Nostratic list!

As regards "false positives", e.g. I should point that in Britain,
where there are now many Muslim immigrants, an automatic blanket block
against NAZI*, where the star is a wildcard, would also causae
annoyance by blocking the fairly common Arabic / Muslim name Nazir.

I read once that an email sent by a British man was auto-blocked in
America for obscenity because it contained the word "tits" in its
British meaning of "small passerine birds of the genus Parus". (In
American they are called chickadees, I think.)

Back to topic: How closely related are the Caucasian languages? Are
there any isolates or near-isolates among them? How much has their
native vocabulary been drowned by words taken from neighboring
imperial or cultural languages?



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