Re: [tied] How should Nostratic be viewed?

Glen,

You just may be correct. I had wanted to place a date (say mid 1800's) claiming that before that time there was no international communication, yet trade has been prevalent since the earliest civilizations began exchanging goods.

Gerry

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From: Glen Gordon

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Subject: Re: [tied] How should Nostratic be viewed?

Gerry: >In Fig. 2.6.2 Cavalli-Sforza presents a Genetic Tree and compares >it with linguistic families and superfamilies [...] Why must we continue to compare genetics with linguistics? The two are just so patently different, I could just whack people on the head, it's so stupid! Ugh! >:( This is not to say that there is no correlation between the two, but the fact that there are Irish people in Canada who no longer speak Gaelic should give most of us a big giant clue that the above is gaga-science. It's telling us nothing. - gLeN _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail

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