Re: Nostratic and IE (was: Re: [tied] Pronunciation of "r" - again?)

From: glen gordon
Message: 41309
Date: 2005-10-12

Andrew:
> I realize now that I over-explained
> myself, going beyond the original intention of
> merely making [...] a humorous
> connection to the Bible, [...] that isn't it neat
> or interesting or mysterious how only recently,
> 3,500 or so years later, there is a coincidence
> [...]

I'm pretty sure that was a run-on sentence :) Thanks
for clarifying. I suppose I'm edgy because of
my accidental Jehovah's Witness upbringing. In that
religion, all the old turn-of-the-century Bible-based
ideas about language spread persist to this day.
Then I went through my nihilist phase, fighting
against my captures and deprival of modern knowledge.

So I start getting all Traumatic Stress Disorder when
I see someone connecting linguistics and religion
together in the same sentence.

I see your poetic point now. To be frank, I sometimes
think about this in connection with evolution. It's
more the kind of thoughts that could write a good
sci-fi novel but are a potential land-mine in
academic circles :)


> There is always doubt, we always have to think again
> and remember and try to be sure, and with doubt
> always creeping up can we ever really arrive at
> truth?

Oh, you are delightfully anarchist, aren't you. Yes,
Brian and I have been debating over the 'basis of
Logic' in another thread (perhaps on the Nostratic-L,
I've lost track). My position is similar to your
view overall. However I stress that I still like
to comfort myself in the fantasy known as Existence.
Don't ruin my fantasy :P


= gLeN





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