Re: The PCT of Indo-European origins

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Francesco Brighenti" <frabrig@...>
wrote:

>
> Perhaps that stuff isn't worth anyone's time, but yet it is
> necessary to point out that the founder of the linguistic school in
> question is a respected linguist who has his own followers within
> the linguistic academia.
>
> The Italian linguist Mario Alinei is Professor Emeritus at the
> University of Utrecht, where he taught from 1959 to 1987. He is [and

so on - JER].

Well, the world is full of surprising stories. Anyone whose first
google-hit identifies him as the author of the doctrine that Etruscan
is an archaic form of Hungarian is indeed worthy of at least some of
the time we spend on amusement.

Jens