Re: Etruscan, Nostratic etc.

From: Richard Wordingham
Message: 34832
Date: 2004-10-24

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...>
wrote:
> Dear Members,
>
> To quote our rules of conduct,
>
> "Since this list is devoted to Indo-European studies, the
discussion of
> extraneous or too general topics (e.g. other language families,
the
> origin of language, long-range comparison etc.) will be
discouraged."
>
> There are better places for exchanging thoughts on Nostratic (and
other
> long-range superfamilies, even if they possibly contain IE) and
Etruscan
> (when discussed for its own sake).
>
> Please visit our allied Nostratic-L list:
>
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Nostratic-L/
>
> As for Etruscan, I think it presents enough interesting problems
to fill
> a specially dedicated forum. In the present circumstances I can't
> moderate an Etruscan list myself, but if anyone volunteers to run
such a
> forum, I'll be among the first subscribers.

And there is now a forum meeting this description (including
membership), namely http://groups.yahoo.com/group/etruscanlanguage/ .

Richard.