Haverhillian  (was: Re: extinction of a list)

--- In nostratic@yahoogroups.com, vpfluke@... wrote:

> Comments from a lurker:
> By the way to be on topic with Nostratic, Janson, holds to the
> belief that without strong evidence for Nostratic, that he isn't
> going to deal with it. Languages have changed too much to prove
> it, so we can't act like it ever existed.

The problem with the "changed too much" argument is that it's usually
based on arguments from glottochronology. Yet all the assumptions of
glottochronology are either vague or known to be false. Granted the
evidence so far isn't good enough to prove the Nostratic hypothesis,
but if we don't look we can never hope to find it.