From: Rick McCallister
Message: 53332
Date: 2008-02-15
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister____________________________________________________________________________________
> <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:
> >
> > What are transhumans?
>
> Don't ask me. Ask Witzel.
>
> M. Kelkar
>
>
> Bodisattvas who have experienced
> > nirvana and who have come back with the mantra
> --"Out
> > of Indian, Out of India."
> >
> >
> > --- mkelkar2003 <swatimkelkar@...> wrote:
> >
> > > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M.
> Scott"
> > > <BMScott@> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > At 12:46:01 AM on Friday, February 15, 2008,
> > > mkelkar2003
> > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > [...]
> > > >
> > > > >> Why do you waste our time (and yours) with
> > > these repeated
> > > > >> attempts to find *linguistic* support for
> your
> > > > >> ideological axioms when you clearly don't
> > > believe that
> > > > >> linguistic evidence is worth a damn? If
> it's
> > > worthless,
> > > > >> it's just as worthless when (you think
> that) it
> > > says what
> > > > >> you want to hear as when it doesn't.
> > > >
> > > > > Acutally, I am not saying linguistic
> evidence is
> > > > > worthless, [...]
> > > >
> > > > You don't have to say it in so many words:
> it's
> > > quite
> > > > obvious that this is what you really believe.
> You
> > > use your
> > > > ill-understood snippets only as weapons of
> debate,
> > > not out
> > > > of any interest in linguistics, and you value
> them
> > > only
> > > > insofar as they serve your intellectual cause.
> > > >
> > > > Brian
> > >
> > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glottochronology
> > >
> > > How is the "Indo-Aryan" invasion, transhumance
> > > (Witzel 2003, very
> > > interesting word indded!), migration, trickling
> a
> > > fact if it could
> > > have happend any where between 4500 BCE to 1500
> BCE
> > > and the
> > > transhumans could have come from anywhere from
> > > Turkey to Russian
> > > Steppes?
> > >
> > > M. Kelkar
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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> > http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs
> >
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