From: Rick McCallister
Message: 61070
Date: 2008-10-25
> From: Andrew Jarrette <anjarrette@...>I think it's just Nostratic. Arnaud's on it, even Piotr is on it. Octaviá always has interesting things to say and would enjoy your company. There are very few people, so you can pretty take over and make it a more speculative wing of Cybalist. Torsten can Odin to his heart's content.
> Subject: [tied] Re: [cybalist_admin] Re: Pontic and other pre-/para-IE languages
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Saturday, October 25, 2008, 2:14 PM
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "dgkilday57"
> <dgkilday57@...> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Let's take it over to the Nostratic list,
> then. But keep me in
> >
> > I didn't know the Nostratic list was still around.
> They say one
> > should read a list for six weeks before posting
> anything, so that's
> > what I'll do while I cobble together a sketch of
> Pre-Greek as Para-
> > IE. I'm not a "Nostraticist" and my
> views have little to do
> > with "classical" Nostratic theory, so I hope
> N-list members will cut
> > me some slack. In the meantime I have my hands full
> in THIS forum; I
> > promised detailed expositions of 'cat' and
> 'path' months ago, and I
> > must also answer more recent questions about
> morphological parallels
> > to <accipiter>, Rustic Latin phonology,
> Veneto-Illyrian diagnostics,
> > and purported Indo-Iranian hydronyms in NW Europe
> (admittedly a
> > retread of Kretschmer's theory of Scythian
> hydronyms in Britain, with
> > the stratum back-dated a millennium or so).
> >
> > DGK
> >
>
> Which Nostratic list will you use, "Nostratic",
> "Nostratica", or
> "Nostratic-L"? There may even be a fourth that
> I'm forgetting.
>
> Andrew