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Is there any language family of which nobody says that Sumerian was related to it? Technically, no, as Ruhlen at least has long claimed that all languages descend from Proto-World. (Kind of surprisingly, though, he throws it in the Unclassified bin.) But my impression is that the long-range compare...

I hope your secretary Don Boozer doesn't do too much drinking on the job!

I'd only ever say 'me and my sister's car' - everything else sounds strange and un-English to my ears.

And you still haven't explained why lip and lick can't be connected in Old European Thingummywatsit, despite the fact that they clearly are related in a number of modern languages. I'm affraid the coincidence of both meanings in some modern languages doesn't imply things were so in ancient ones. Th...

This is WeepingElf's thread, so STFU.

And you still haven't explained why lip and lick can't be connected in Old European Thingummywatsit, despite the fact that they clearly are related in a number of modern languages.

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Does anybody know if any natural language disallows onset clusters but allow coda clusters?

I think you'll find that there have been some very good arguments against your position for the entire 11 pages of your thread. We've yet to see any sound correspondences between secure etymons, that prove your position. What does mean secure in your opinion? I remind you that unlike, for example, ...

'Crab' and 'scorpion' are quite different animals, too. For that matter, I can say from my own experience that the Zodiac signs Cancer and Scorpio have strong affinities, none the least in bed matters :D That is some very bizarre BDSM you're alluding to there. Scorpions and sex were never designed ...

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Ok, you've won me over. Looking at all the available evidence, I have to concede that not only have I been naive, I've also been blatantly wrong. I think it's only fair that I issue an apology for wasting so much of your collective time, especially WeepingElf and Goatface. While there may have been ...

No, no, you're doing it wrong. If we don't come up with new hypotheses, how do we expect to advance our knowledge of the Pre-IE European language landscape? The standard Indo-European model is far too simplistic. Do you really think that PIE and early existed in a bubble, with no significant linguis...

Pthug please. What you're not aware of, however, is that the word ban derives from the Neolithic wanderwort *bĤģno- (to halt, fall) which is the ancestor of Basque bunok (to try again), Georgian bkerg'hili (to feel tired), Hungarian avóg (to fear) and might have been borrowed into Old Latin as dueno...

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But Legion is a native speaker, and he'll teach us proper french instead of stuffy, old fashioned textbook French.

Isn't the placement of Albanian within IE uncertain? Are there any shared innovations between Albanian and Indo-Iranian for that matter?