At 20:42 04.08.03 -0400, H.M. Hubey wrote:

>I think Hintze wrote this as satire.

Probably to demonstrate that Meroitic could be classified as UA just as
well as NS <eg>. Wasn't he prof in Berlin? That explained the
"Vietze-Mongolian"... Anyway, there's a similar piece by Campbell on
Japanese and Amerind: "Beyond the comparative method?", which should be
available as a .PDF on the web, just hack into the search engine of your
trust and...

Enjoy! :-)

Heike


PS: Where do you get all this morbidly-fascinating stuff from?