From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 56919
Date: 2008-04-06
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>
To: "Patrick Ryan" <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2008 1:43 PM
Subject: Re[2]: [tied] Re: Mitanni and Matsya
> At 2:15:55 PM on Sunday, April 6, 2008, Patrick Ryan wrote:
>
> > From: "david_russell_watson" <liberty@...>
>
> >> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan"
> >> <proto-language@...> wrote:
>
> >>> Scholars love to quibble over quaint differences but
> >>> remember the impetus for Nostratic in the first place
> >>> was the idea of a relationship between PIE and PS
> >>> (Møller).
>
> >> "Scholars" are going to have to quibble over that at
> >> Nostratic-L or some place else, because the whole subject
> >> is strictly off-topic here.
>
> > If you were a moderator, I would probably retire from the
> > list.
>
> > Quit speaking for them; you are not entitled to do so.
>
> He is correct. He has already quoted for you the relevant
> section of the list's rules:
>
> Since this list is devoted to Indo-European studies, the
> discussion of extraneous or too general topics (e.g. other
> language families, the origin of language, long-range
> comparison etc.) will be discouraged. There are other
> lists where subjects like general linguistic, Nostratic
> studies, anthropology, etc., may be discussed more
> profitably.
>
> Nostratic studies are off-topic.
>
> Brian
> speaking as moderator
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Brian, I believe it was _David_ who brought up Nostratic.
I have only initiated comments only early states of PIE, much along the same
lines as Miguel visualizes, I think.
Patrick
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