From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 61711
Date: 2008-11-18
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From: "Rick McCallister" <gabaroo6958@...>
>
> No, it does not. Nilotic speakers of what's now called Nilo-Saharan were
> once referred to as "Para-Hamitic."
> More than anything else, "Hamitic" was used to mean "African, Black".
> I just spoke with a colleague, a French professor from West Africa, who
> told me that while she is aware of the term Chamito-Semitique, that she
> finds it offensive and obscurantist.
> The term is at best quaint and given that we don't call IE "Japhetic",
> should be relegated to the dung heap of disgarded phrases
>
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You have a disturbing tendency to quote unknown people.
We've had a discussion about French rule on Alsace.
You made unsupported claims about that rule
conflicting with German descriptions of French rule
which appeared to be (unexpectedly) laudative.
Now you make unsupported claim about Chamito-Semitic
on the ground of a supposed colleague, whose name and identity is completely
unknown.
I'm sorry,
but your argumentative strategy is hugely biased and rooted on nowhere
nobody speaking as a real person.
If you want to be taken seriously, please provide real sources written by
real people.
A.