Re: [tied] searching for common words for all today's languages

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>
wrote:

>
> At 12:20:54 PM on Friday, February 3, 2006, ytielts wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > Is there any information available for the correspondent
> > sound roots in the superfamily of Eurasian(60,000-40,000
> > years ago as proposed by Merritt Ruhlen in 1944), from
> > which some big language families such as Afro-Asiatic,
> > Eurasiatic including indoeuropean languages and
> > Dene-Caucasian involving Chinese, my first language, by
> > the way, are believed to derive by the main stream
> > genetists like Cavalli-sforza, Peter Underhill(both are
> > the authoritative genetists working with the HGP) and
> > linguists like Merritt Ruhlen?
>
> If I may quote the late Larry Trask, in a 5 October 2003
> post to sci.lang:
>
> First, Ruhlen is not recognized by anybody in linguistics
> as a member of the profession. Every single linguist who
> is acquainted with his work regards him as a crackpot and
> a charlatan.
>
> Brian
>

Brian, thanks for your reply. However, I am not ironic.
Can you give me constructive suggestions instead of just giving me
some quotation? I have no idea about Larry Trask or his works. Could
you let me know where to find them?

Also, does he believe the out of africa theory. If he does, he
should have made some efforts to search for common roots for all
today's languages.