Re: new book on the spread of IE

On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 23:55:35 GMT, Richard Wordingham
<jrw0602@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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<ekkilu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Feb 16, 1:30 pm, Trond Engen <trond...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Feb 17, 5:24 am, ekk...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Get your Chinese stereotype out of your mind. Southern Min has
exactly 6 vowels, just like Austronesian. Again, I know more on this
than you do.

I understood Proto-Austronesian to have 4 vowels.

But I'm far from being a native speaker of English and may well have got
it all wrong.

You got it all right. The native speakers simply were so full of
stereotypes that their minds could no longer work.

Well, this native speaker understood your meiosis.

I did originally; it was his responses to Peter that cast
doubt on that interpretation.

It's supposedly a form of irony, and Americans are
alleged not to understand irony.

One does get rather tired of that canard. And Ross isn't an
American anyway.

Brian
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