Re: Mitanni and Matsya

At 2:07:44 PM on Sunday, April 6, 2008, david_russell_watson
wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...>
> wrote:

>> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud"
>> <fournet.arnaud@...> wrote:

>>> I suppose your Proto-Language remains an enigma for many
>>> people.

>> When they have been told so long that its reconstruction
>> is impossible, if they see it, they are not willing to
>> believe their own eyes.

> Well it's unbelievable alright.

> monkey-help-die-begin!

To be fair, I *think* that it was Jens who coined that one:
'I mean of course words that correspond to words, not
monkey-help-die-begin = apple or whatever you have been
serving us in the past', at
<http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/39466>.

But <'store-done repeatedly-place' = 'connubial bed'> and
<'balls-compacted' = 'buttocks'> can be found at
<http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/2803/ProtoLanguage-Monosyllables.htm>
and are just as bad.

Brian