From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 55803
Date: 2008-03-23
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From: Patrick Ryan
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WHOA!
I said Nostratic not Mandarin.
You cannot jump all over the place and have anything but a monologue.
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I have already stated
that I don't think much of "Nostratic".
People who start with the idea
that PAA is another branch remotely
cognate to the rest are already astray
before they made a single step.
Chinese is one of the languages where
the issue : affricate non affricate is clear.
You cannot ask me to justify
what I am asserting
on the basis of another theory
which I don't endorse.
I'm not jumping all over the place,
I know where to find
what I'm looking for.
Arnaud
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