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From: petrich@netcom.com (Loren Petrich)
Subject: Re: How Sumerians invented language has now moved to...
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In article <seagoat.588.00A2BCCA@primenet.com>,
John A. Halloran <seagoat@primenet.com> wrote:
>In article <324FFBB9.2EC9@trl.telstra.com.au> Jacques Guy <j.guy@trl.telstra.com.au> writes:

	[a laugh at John Halloran's inanities...]

>Does it sound better to say that the first people to invent spoken language 
>lived in Timbuktu ... Stone Age cannibals in the African jungle?

>Or a people responsible for "Thirty-Nine Firsts in Man's Recorded History"?  
>This is the subtitle of a book by Samuel Noah Kramer, History Begins at Sumer, 
>3rd Revised Edition, (Philadelphia, The University of Pennsylvania Press, 
>1981).

	Now how are insulting stereotypes about the (likely) ancestral 
human population supposed to make any difference???

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