Re: Mitanni and Matsya

----- Original Message -----
From: "david_russell_watson" <liberty@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2008 11:28 AM
Subject: [tied] Re: Mitanni and Matsya


--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...>
wrote:
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Rick McCallister"
<gabaroo6958@...> wrote:
> >
> > Nostratics has most definitely not been proven. There
> > is not even a uniform definition of what composes
> > Nostratic. There are no universally acceptible
> > proto-languages for most postulated members of
> > Nostratic. On Cybalist, our colleagues are still
> > hashing out the fine points of IE and doing an
> > excellent job of it, but work among other families
> > "tentatively" assigned to Nostratic has much farther
> > to go. Nostratic, at best, is promising and is a work
> > in progress. That's not to say there aren't some
> > excellent and dedicated people at there hammering
> > away. Bomhard et al, are taking on something the size
> > of Mount Rushmore almost single-handedly. But it can
> > only be completed if people follow sound rules of
> > reconstruction instead of blindly resorting to hald
> > measures such as mass comparisons and twisting
> > evidence by ignoring reconstructions because present
> > forms look closer to what one wants.
>
> Nostratic has been irrefutably demonstrated.

So you say, and yet refutation sits quoted above this line,
and can be found other places as well.

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No disrespect to Rick but he is simply not competent to judge the issue.

The last time I made an informal survey, the professional members of the
list semmed willing to entertain the idea of Nostratic but considered it
unproven.

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> On the minor points need to be refined: phonology being a
> major concern.

So you say, and yet a few more serious problems are found in
the quote above.

In any case, whatever Nostratics is or isn't, its discussion
is off-topic on cybalist. I suggest you take it up at

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nostratic ,

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/nostratica ,

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Nostratic-L , or

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/proto-language .

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More "liberal" censorship.

Do you people even know what freedom means?


Patrick

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Do any of these ring a bell?

David

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Is there a ringing in your head, David?

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