----- Original Message -----
From: "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...>
To: <nostratic@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 10:39 PM
Subject: [nostratic] Nostratic and Proto-World... not the same thing at all
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Certainly, Patrick's violent insistence
> that his reconstructions are truth despite the fact that,
> logically, one can only say that they are highly uncertain
> reconstructions at best, would certainly make me want to dismiss whatever
> criticisms he has for me personally. Bomhard doesn't
> strike me as a crazy man so perhaps he's thinking along the same
> lines.
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[PCR]
What those who read not scan might have seen in my critique of Bomhard is Footnote 2:
"I am including Proto-Language forms in the examples I discuss. I am not going to argue for a wider inclusion of language-families with Nostratic into a higher grouping in this essay. I would hope that those who reject such an idea a priori would regard the Proto-Language forms as simply pre-Nostratic."
Pat