if we assume that language was not a multiple discovery, i cant see how nostratic isn't a reasonable hypothesis
therefore im going to use comparative linguistics to combine all the proto-languages and rediscover what i will call "babelish", the language spoken in the GARDEN of EDEN
i love proto-language scholars. in terms of reconstructing proto-languages they've actually reached the ice age at this point. proto-indo-european spoken about 4500BC looks pretty pathetic when you get to proto-afroasiatic at 16000BC
reading about the "dene-caucasian" language family. didn't know chinese, na-dene languages and sumerian were related? neither did i
i think i like (extremely) historical linguistics so much because it's the ultimate form of armchair linguistics and utterly useless. i am allergic to anything you can make a profit from
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