From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 58279
Date: 2008-05-02
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>
To: "Rick McCallister" <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 2:59 AM
Subject: Re[4]: [tied] Re: beyond langauges
> At 12:58:17 AM on Thursday, May 1, 2008, Rick McCallister
> wrote:
>
>> --- Patrick Ryan <proto-language@...> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>>> Have you never been to the Tower of Babel website?
>
>> Yes, I have and I think it's a great start but there
>> are still issues to be sorted out.
>
> <http://groups.google.com/group/sci.lang/msg/e78a83a653917b02>
>
> Brian
>
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As usual, everything has to be assessed.
This site is great because there is plenty of data.
Now as regards reconstructions,
I agree many are inadequate.
Caucasic and Yenissei are clear examples of monstruosities.
PAA is rather good because it's from Militarev
and Chinese is from Yahontov.
Arnaud
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