User talk:Talskubilos

Hi,

I've reduced your ban. In the future you are welcome to work on your own ideas here, but please do not continue the Europic discussion with Jörg. —Muke Tever | ✎ 06:41, 31 July 2012 (PDT)

Vasco-Caucasian

I have created a page on Vasco-Caucasian languages, but it doesn't say much yet. Feel free to add to it. --WeepingElf 07:52, 12 September 2012 (PDT)

Thanks. Just to be fair, I changed "many linguists" by "Jörg Rhiemeier" ;-) Talskubilos 01:32, 14 September 2012 (PDT)

This is not what I can leave standing. I am by far not the only one who considers it unwarranted. Most linguists think that the evidence is insufficient. It is people like you who are in the minority position. --WeepingElf 08:05, 14 September 2012 (PDT)

Actually, most historical linguists have no position about Vasco-Caucasian because it's outside their own speciality (either IE or something else). Nostratic has more supporters than VC, but they're still a minority, so I think "many" would be more appropriate. Talskubilos 06:08, 15 September 2012 (PDT)

I have just added a link to your blog to the Vasco-Caucasian languages page. --WeepingElf 12:58, 14 September 2012 (PDT)

You'll have noticed my position has changed since our old discussions in ZBB, because now I know more about Paleo-IE, mainly (but not exclusively) thanks to Villar's last book. Now I regard Vasco-Caucasian speakers as being agropastoralists rather than farmers and mostly confined to the Mediterranean area in Europe.

I also think the monolythic model of IE has contaminated Nostratic, resulting in a dramatical collapse of layers where Wanderwörter are mistaken by inherited lexicon and so on. Talskubilos 07:50, 15 September 2012 (PDT)