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Thread:User talk:Rua/Unexplained deletions: continuing what appears to be a common theme

rationale for the deletions either in prior discussion or retroactively (and I can only guess that your expectation was that I come to you). Other than...

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perhaps more relevant to the philosophy of ways of knowing. Both you and Rua are evidently very experienced, in the areas relevant to what you have studied...

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of such families as Nostratic and Indo-Uralic continue regardless of what Wiktionary or Wikipedia have to say on them (which are, respectively, nothing...

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I still do not dare doing Indo-European reconstruction. What competence has he who wants to reconstruct Nostratic? Of course all goes by wordlists and...

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again, no specifics are mentioned, and this appears to be an argument by association. Would you be willing to discuss the problematic details of the theory...

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appears to assume an Altaic grouping. Altaic itself is not an accepted theory in mainstream linguistics. Why should I accept a theory that tries to build...

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month, one of the speakers brought up the concept of Nostratic in his talk, eliciting a hearty chuckle from those assembled. More generally, the field of...

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quoting Nr. 15 of his word list: “West Semitic 1: *ḳʷr(r) ‘to be cold’ (#2), possibly related to Afras. *ḳVr- ‘dry”. The selectiveness in forms is worrying...

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I don't know a single linguist who regards Nostratic as anything more than a bad joke. I think you're aware that there might be a reason almost nobody...

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must first request a code, and hope the dice roll in their favor. Hopefully the opposite logic won't then be invoked, i.e. “Why create a language code for...