Re: Re[2]: [tied] searching for common words for all today's langua

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From: Brian M. Scott

To: ytielts

Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2006 10:22 AM

Subject: Re[2]: [tied] searching for common words for all today's languages

 

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> Thanks for your reply, Brian. It is generally agreed by
> most mainstream anthropologists that homo sapiens sapiens
> originates in Africa. That means that all their
> descendants should have used a common language somewhere
> in Africa.

Not necessarily, no.  But it's a reasonable working
hypothesis, so long as one remembers that that's *all* it
is.

> There should be a genetic link between all the
> present-day languages. Don't you agree?

It doesn't matter whether there is or not: for the reasons
given above, all demonstrable traces of such a link must
have been destroyed millennia ago.

Brian

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Patrick:

 

There you go again, Brian, asserting what _you_ have _never_ attempted to prove.

 

You say "all demonstrable traces of such a link must have been destroyed".

 

Prove it.

 

I challenge you to prove it.

 

I have 90 monosyllables at

 

http://www.geocities.com/proto-language/ProtoLanguage-Monosyllables.htm

 

Prove that any _one_ (sic!) of these among the unaspirated series (45) is unlikely.

 

Are you scholar enough to do it?

 

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