--- david_russell_watson <
liberty@...> wrote:
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan"
> <proto-language@...>
> wrote:
>
> > In any case, the comparative evidence (e.g. HEgy
> <wr>, 'large',
> > presents the unextended root from Nostratic.
>
> So-called Nostratic "evidence" is unacceptable. The
> Nostratic
> theory is an interesting but unproven idea. As of
> today P.I.E.
> has no known relatives.
>
> David
It goes beyond that into plain irrationality.
If you're looking for vocabulary links, you look first
at closely related languages.
If you lost an outhouse in Arkansas, you don't go look
for it in Tennessee.
And if you are going to look at other families, you
look first at the proto-language. If you don't go back
to the proto-language, you run the risk of comparing
koalas to bears, wombats to woodchucks, plesiosaurs to
whales, etc,
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