Re: Related languages (Re: A China-Sumer connection)

From: Jacques Guy (jguy_at_alphalink.com.au)
Date: 03/09/05 

Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 11:51:53 +1000

Doug Weller wrote:

> Why anyone would come into a specialist newsgroup (or 3 in this case) and
> tell people who actually know something about the subject matter of those
> newsgroups that they don't know what they are talking about is a bit
> mystifying.

No, not if the someone is a baby postmodernist cutting his first teeth.
Like Raymond Tallis I think it was wrote somewhere: they have the habit
of using terms of which they have not the faintest understanding.

It's like those who are fond of proving that Basque = Navaho (or
Sumerian = Austronesian). The less they understand, the more
evidence they find.

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