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- From: hubey@pilot.njin.net (Hubey)
- Newsgroups: sci.lang
- Subject: Re: Bulgarians - descendents of a Finnis tribe?
- Message-ID: <Jan.6.23.37.02.1993.24001@pilot.njin.net>
- Date: 7 Jan 93 04:37:02 GMT
- References: <1992Dec30.211917.2524@leland.Stanford.EDU> <1993Jan4.071434.27930@jyu.fi> <1993Jan4.205115.8521@leland.Stanford.EDU> <Jan.4.16.54.01.1993.22727@pilot.njin.net> <1993Jan6.193601.9179@leland.Stanford.EDU>
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- In article <1993Jan6.193601.9179@leland.Stanford.EDU> alderson@elaine46.Stanford.EDU (Rich Alderson) writes:
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- >
- > <Here endeth the lesson.>
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-
- Thank you very much for the lesson :-).
-
- In a month or two, depending on how much loss of sleep I'm able
- to tolerate, I'll have a lesson or two. Please stay tuned :-).
-
- > It was replaced by the use of the comparative method--used successfully by
- > investigators not only in Indo-European languages, but Semitic and Austro-
- > Asiatic langauges as well.
-
- Let's remember the lesson that Omega Man learned. Some methods might
- be more useful for closely related languages than for languages
- that are not closely related (or just not close in terms of distance
- without making any claims for genetic descent).
-
- BTW, I have always appreciated your posts and your comments.
- --
-
- mark
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