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From: alderson@netcom16.netcom.com (Richard M. Alderson III)
Subject: Re: Origin of Dravidian
In-Reply-To: Peter k Chong's message of 15 Aug 1996 06:54:56 GMT
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I thought I recognized the silliness regarding Sumerian in your previous post.

There is no scientific basis for any of the claims made at the Web site you
cited as your source of authority.  Go read a good book, such as Bynon, or
Hock, or Anttila, or Crowley, on historical linguistics; you should then be
able to view this stuff with a more critical eye.
-- 
Rich Alderson   You know the sort of thing that you can find in any dictionary
                of a strange language, and which so excites the amateur philo-
                logists, itching to derive one tongue from another that they
                know better: a word that is nearly the same in form and meaning
                as the corresponding word in English, or Latin, or Hebrew, or
                what not.
                                                --J. R. R. Tolkien,
alderson@netcom.com                               _The Notion Club Papers_
