From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 53879
Date: 2008-02-21
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From: Rick McCallister
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 5:00 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] Early Indo-European loanwords preserved in Finnish
I'd like to hear about the merits and demerits of O/S.
Ehret and Bender --perhaps over on Nostratic.
My point is that Semito-Hamitic is a long outdated
term. Afro-Asiatic, Afrasian or even Erythraean all
work and don't presume an artificial dichotomy between
Semitic and the rest of AA.
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It's only a conventional word
Do you think indo----european is better ?
There is no dichotomy between
indic and the rest.
And afro-asiatic also suggests dichotomy.
More or less the same dichotomy
because only Semitic is not African....
This is more about some snobish
satisfaction of having invented a new
word instead of invented new facts.
A waste of time.
Scientific added-value is nil.
Arnaud
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