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Re: A short account of the possible history of human languages from Babel (was Re: Evolution - Blind Heart Surgery) http://groups.google.com
Jerzy Jakubowski (branchofjesse@hotmail.com) 2004/01/29 06:18

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Subject: Re: A short account of the possible history of human languages from Babel (was Re: Evolution - Blind Heart Surgery)
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eros_talk_origins@hotmail.com (Eros) wrote in message news:<ab0de77f.0401272216.396eeb1@posting.google.com>...
> "Uncle Davey" <noway@jose.com> wrote in message news:<bv3eev$7lr$1@atlantis.news.tpi.pl>...
>
> [snip childish linguistic fantasy]
>
> > > Incidently, even broader groups than Nostratic have been proposed,
> > > including attempts to reconstruct words of Proto-World. Unfortunately
> > > the only one I recall at the moment is rather indelicate.
> >
> > There's every chance that we can guess at a word that was in the vocabulary
> > of somebody who walked out of Babel, maybe in a sound-shifted or abbreviated
> > form. After all, all the material in every tribal or supertribal language
> > came from someone or other's Babel exit language.  It's not common for
> > languages to invent words, so even 'shit' has good cognates in Greek. If we
> > say that 'skata' is closer, because we can tell it didn't go through the
> > Germanic sound shifts which we know all about thanks to Grimm, then we can
> > ascert with a good probability of truth that some rather powerful man or his
> > wife, with a penchant for talking about his or her bodily functions,
> > received the ancestor word for 'skata/shit' in his or her personal language
> > at Babel.
>
> My personal opinion is that your hypothesis is a load of 'shit'... I mean 'skata'!

OK. So which alternative hypothesis do you find more convincing and why?

Uncle Davey


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