>Glen: Actually, I think that Michael is referring to Steven Pinker.
>I did a Google search of Pinker + Nostratic, and here is a URL that
>shows a chart of what Michael described:
>http://www.friesian.com/trees.htm Something for you to mull over perhaps?
>Andy Howey
Ah. Yes, I've seen this pseudoscience before. Genetics really has
little to do with language spread. It's just someone who wasn't
accepted in the linguistic circle, and so, having a taste for
revenge, decided to come up with a grand unified theory of
linguistics without using linguistics at all just to put linguists
out of a job. It didn't work.
Any connection between genetics and linguistics is at best loose.
And why would there be a correlation? I've never heard of anyone
bred to be an English speaker.
- gLeN
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