From: Kishore patnaik
Message: 51275
Date: 2008-01-15
--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh <gknysh@...s> wrote:
>
>
> --- "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
> wrote:
>
> > Great !
> >
> > Now,
> > as far as this paper is concerned,
> > I think a better title could have been :
> > "a philological review of some toponyms of
> > north-west Anatolia"
> > The title "the homeland of Etruscans" is absurd.
> >
> > And I don't understand why some people keep thinking
> > things are not what they are and peoples should
> > always come from
> > some other unknown place.
> > Etruscans are just Etruscans
> > and they originate in the place where they are known
> > to live.
> > And this needs no further explanation at all.
> >
> > Arnaud
>
> ****GK: What is the evidence that "Etruscan" as a
> language (as against "Etruscans" as a people- 75%(:=))
> or 90 or 95% may be descendants of "those who were
> always there" (well for thousands of years) no matter
> what language they spoke) was "always there"? What
> "needs no further explanation" to the purveyors of
> Arnaud rubbish (if you don't like the term don't use
> it re others) is a problem for more serious
> investigators.****
>
>
>
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