--- Patrick Ryan <
proto-language@...> wrote:
> [ELST]
>
> "Imagine the first waves of emigrants from India,
> taking most of the
> ancestor-dialects of the various branches of the IE
> family with them,
> through the Oxus valley to the Wolga plain and
> beyond.
****GK: Just this neat beginning is enough to
disqualify Elst as a competent analyst. He "imagines".
His "imaginations" have no archaeological foundations
whatsoever. Nothing. Zero. Nada. One can't even begin
a discussion. Well, perhaps come up with an
alternative "imagination": the IE's descended from
some other galaxy, made a stopover in India(why
not?(:=))), then flew northward, descended again, and
their ships self-destructed.****
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