--- Patrick Ryan <
proto-language@...> wrote:
. . .
> Patrick:
>
> Jesus weeps! Brian, cut the guy some slack.
>
> He is addressing the Indian Rotary Club.
>
That's no excuse. Do you suddenly become an idiot when
you address the Little Rock Knitting and Anarchist
Society?
The guy says I-A, Dravidian and Munda forma a language
family --not that they're part of the same Nostratic
phylum or whatnot. Then he contradicts himself by
throwing in IE, as if his iA-Dravidian-Munda node is
part of IE. I'm sure college sophomores all over
America would like to have some of what he's smoking.
Whatever relationship exists between IE and Dravidian
goes back beyond Eurasiatic, which is yet to be
reconstructed. That project needs to be built up one
step at a time.
1. Find and reconstruct branches of Eurasiatic
--esentially Indo-Tyrrhenian or Indo-Uralic vs. the
rest.
2. Reconstruct Eurasiatic
3. Then compare Eurasiatic with AA, Dravidan, Elamite,
Kartvelian and Sumerian
4. Then reconstruct Macro-Nostratic
Only by following rigorous methodological steps is
anyone going get Nostratic universally recognized
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