From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 41346
Date: 2005-10-13
> From: "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>[...]
>> At 9:03:52 PM on Wednesday, October 12, 2005, Patrick Ryan
>> wrote:
>>> From: "david_russell_watson" <liberty@...>
>>>> [...] I was quoting a claim of Patrick's from earlier in
>>>> the thread, one which I personally give no credence, and
>>>> which is what prompted me to enter the thread in the
>>>> first place. :^)
>>> I make the claim again: Arabic has _retained_ "laryngeals"No intepretation is required: I need only read what he wrote
>>> (really laryngals and pharyngals) better (more) than any
>>> PIE-derived language.
>>> You still think this is wrong? [...]
>> It's irrelevant. The claim to which David was objecting was
>> this: 'The language that has best retained the Nostratic
>> sound-system is Arabic' (Nr. 41092). Specifically, he's
>> objecting to the implicit claim that there is an accepted
>> Nostratic super-family with an accepted sound-system. Since
>> in fact there isn't, he's right to object.
> Brian, you are certainly entitled to your opinion, and I
> will always be interested in it when you express it but I
> do think it is highly inappropriate for you or anyone else
> to interpret David's (or someone else's) words for him
> _before_ he even has had an opportunity to respond
> himself.
> Although the details may need some fine-tuning, there isThere seems still to be more than a little disagreement over
> general agreement among Nostraticists on what the
> correspondences are.