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> branchofjesse@hotmail.com (Jerzy Jakubowski) wrote in message
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> > eros_talk_origins@hotmail.com (Eros) wrote in message
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> > > "Uncle Davey" <noway@jose.com> wrote in message
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> > > [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?
>
> You don't even *have* a serious linguistic hypothesis, only wild
> conjecture based on the presumption that the Bible stories are
> correct. Trying to make all the facts fit a fundamentalist religious
> mindset is hardly a scientific approach, is it!
Too right. Trying to make the facts fit an atheist mindset is the correct
scientific approach. No-one in your circles will object if someone does
that.
>
> I suggest you get your head out of the ancient texts and read up on
> some modern scientific theories on the evolution of human language...
> any good library would be a start.
>
> EROS.
Why don't you stop bluffing and name some of those theories and authors you
recommend me to start reading?
Well, there we go. All evolution is, is bluff.
Uncle Davey
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