Re: Swiftness of Indra

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From: "Rick McCallister" <gabaroo6958@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 10:32 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Swiftness of Indra


> This sounds more plausible than an IE scenario.
> I just wish there were some more competent people
> working on Macro-Caucasian who had a bit more common
> sense.
> I'm not a linguist but I know enough about Basque to
> know that Bengtson is fudging Basque data to comply
> with his hypothesis. Although I can't speak to
> Bengtson's competency in Caucasian languages, I'm
> shocked that Witzel, a Harvard professor, is naive
> enough to accept his word re: Basque.
> Before going farther, the Macro-Caucasian people need
> to cement relationship between NE Caucasian, NW
> Caucasian, Burúshaski and Yenisseian. Then look at
> Sino-Tibetan, Na-Dené et al. As it looks now, it's too
> fly-by-night.
> Can anyone on the list judge Colarusso's competency in
> this?

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I had some contact with Colarusso on the old LINGUIST list.

I found him open-minded and extremely competent.


Patrick