Re: What's your favorite crank theory?

John VanSickle wrote:

Whether it's "Basque and Japanese are cognate" or "Arabic is
Proto-World," or something along these lines, what's your favorite crank
theory?


Definitely this one:

http://www.islandnet.com/~nyland/

Some of the highlights:
"All Indo-European languages in Western Europe were invented by Benedictine
linguists."
"The Indian people of the Arctic call themselves the Dene; dena in Basque
means "all of us" and is the same word as in Denemark."
"Consider the name of the river Rhine. [...] It is not surprising that the
Basque word for fish is arrain. Put "ar" in front of "Rhine" and you know
where the name came from."

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