Re: Polynesian and South American place names

From: Qiwi (marym_at_pl.net)
Date: 08/26/04 

Date: 25 Aug 2004 17:58:48 -0700

"Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message news:<412C8361.7FF6@worldnet.att.net>...
> t(nospam)kavanagh wrote:
> >
> > Yuri Kuchinsky wrote:
> > >
> > > Greetings,
> > >
> > > As all anthropologists and historians know, geographical
> > > place names have a tendency to persist over the centuries,
> > > and often even over the millennia.
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > Yuri:
> >
> > You will please provide proper citations for this claim.
> >
> > I am an anthropologist and historian--of which you are neither--and I
> > know of no such claim in either anthropology or history.

Citations for the claim that "....geographical placenames have a
tendency to persist over the centuries and even over the millenia."
???
Why in God's name would you need a citation in support of a statement
that is simply common sense....
and what sort of "anthropolgist and historian" would challenge a
statement like that ???
There must be at least a million examples of placenames that have
endured over the centuries and even over the millenia...
Surely we dont have to give examples do we???
Qiwi et.al

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