Re: [tied] All of creation in Six and Seven

>
> But you _can't_ deny the presence of a Semitic(-like) language

having

> affected IE! We all agree that *septm is a transparently masculine
> form of the Semitic root for "seven".
>
> Rather you deny the geographical distances that seperate the two
> languages. An intermediary language is logically necessary. Unless

you

> want to join the battered camp that still thinks that IE could

possibly

> have been in Anatolia at the time despite the shotty logic of the
> theory. Joining the likes of Gamkrelidze and Ivanov is ironic

considering

> your quest to be rational and scientific (nb. their unlikely

cognate sets

> for "monkey" and "elephant").
>

What's logically necessary is boats. The Kurgan culture when it first
appears is concentrated in a number of places along the rivers of the
Pontic, especially the Don river. Water didn't stop English from
spreading to the new wqorld, did it? Occam would be delighted if you
scrapped Semitish.

Torsten