From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 58423
Date: 2008-05-09
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From: "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 7:59 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] Reconstruction (was: Grimm 's Law fact or myth: Gessman
(1990))
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Richard Wordingham" <richard@...>
>
<...>
> The problem is radioactivity :
> Elements big-banging into becoming something else than before.
> I think we have at least two cases of linguistic big-banging :
> Arabic and Chinese.
> I think you cannot deal with these languages with a nice and gentle linear
> reconstruction.
>
> As a matter of fact,
> both Arabic and Chinese have been pushed aside because most people realize
> they won't be able to handle them.
> Chinese is not supposed to be part of Nostratic
> and Arabic has been pushed aside as far-off relative.
> These languages scare people.
> No method exists to handle these languages.
> At least none other than mine.
>
> Arnaud
>
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Patrick:
Wrong as usual, Arnaud.
http://geocities.com/proto-language/c-AFRASIAN-3_germanic.htm
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