Re: [tied] Mother of all IE languages

From: wtsdv
Message: 27945
Date: 2003-12-04

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "S.Kalyanaraman" <kalyan97@...>
wrote:
>
> I would be on the Eurasiatic Major (EM) list. Please call IE, EM.
> I would be on EM because of the Gundestrup cauldron which mimics
> Sarasvati hieroglyphs.

You're presenting speculation as fact. Do experts see any script
on the Gundestrup cauldron? Do they see any connection with
what's on the cauldron and what's on the seals? Does anybody
else see it but you? Do the seals really contain hieroglyphs,
or is that not just your own speculation? You shouldn't try to
second-guess the experts, especially when you've so recently
betrayed a misunderstanding of what a hieroglyph is. Don't you
agree, sir?

> They are the same people (what you may call genetically related
> language groups) who created both the artifacts.

That's more speculation presented as fact. Please stop doing
that. It's misleading to those reading you who don't know any
better. You don't want to mislead anybody, do you?

> I have no comments and answers to the rest of the post.

No, of course you don't, and I'm not surprised. However, please
do answer the one about systematic sound correspondences at
least. It's important for us to know before we can continue
in any constructive way. You do want to understand _why_ your
ideas are wrong, do you not?

David