Zompist Bboard Again

One has to wonder whether these words truly meet Wiktionary's criteria for inclusion. There seem to be various systems within closely related cultures. Are you one of those perfidious deletionists? No, I take the view that if a people are going to want to know the meaning of a word, it's better to ...

I was *about* to make a "theory" that there were two branches of PIE (p-PIE and q-PIE, so to say), and it could theoretically explain p-Italic and p-Celtic (and PU *peni), but I realized I don't think the sound changes would work out quite well

didn't predict that me making a joke about nostratic would cause me to virtually be two degrees from the guy I was joking about i'm testing his "sound correspondences" against PIE swadesh Well, part of it might be that you're still relatively new here. When someone arrives about whom we d...

Bomhard: Hi guys! I have a reconstruction of Proto-Nostratic, including Indo-European with voiceless aspirates! I know you love that! Bomhard is into the glottalic theory - that's the main point of his dissent with the Moscow school. BTW, I met him on the late Nostratic-L mailing list, had even som...

Bomhard: Hi guys! I have a reconstruction of Proto-Nostratic, including Indo-European with voiceless aspirates! I know you love that! Bomhard is into the glottalic theory - that's the main point of his dissent with the Moscow school. BTW, I met him on the late Nostratic-L mailing list, had even som...

Bomhard: Hi guys! I have a reconstruction of Proto-Nostratic, including Indo-European with voiceless aspirates! I know you love that! also btw voiceless aspirates replace plain stops for some reason. it would just be easier and more likely to have plain, especially the correspondences what is this ...

Brilliant-Resource14 wrote: ↑Wed Sep 23, 2026 10:09 am Bomhard: Hi guys! I have a reconstruction of Proto-Nostratic, including Indo-European with voiceless aspirates! I know you love that!

also btw voiceless aspirates replace plain stops for some reason. it would just be easier and more likely to have plain, especially the correspondences

Bomhard: Hi guys! I have a reconstruction of Proto-Nostratic, including Indo-European with voiceless aspirates! I know you love that!

I don't understand Proto-Yukaghir (or, more specifically, the fact it can have approximately 9 words for a single Swadesh topic. also the list of reconstructions from Wiktionary)

Travis B. wrote: ↑Tue Sep 22, 2026 10:34 am

Brilliant-Resource14 wrote: ↑Tue Sep 22, 2026 10:29 am

bradrn wrote: ↑Tue Sep 22, 2026 10:15 am

I suspect that was satire on the part of Brilliant-Resource14. (Though it’s always hard to tell online.)

it was satire

I felt it was obvious enough that it didn't need a /s myself.

I can't believe that I had to say it

That's what I've been telling mainstream academia because they are against me and trying to silence the truth. Unfortunately, neither of the two are simplexes, and the root is na- < PIE *Hneh 3 - in English name ( -me < PIE *-men is a suffix) and AFAIK -mae in Japanese ( na- is a prefix), and these...

«lexically proven relationship» without a «morphologically proven relationship» can be more tenable simply because of the larger volume of possible evidence. An actual thing George Starostin wrote. so I guess he wouldn't mind me calling Japanese and English related. Name and namae have got to be co...

«lexically proven relationship» without a «morphologically proven relationship» can be more tenable simply because of the larger volume of possible evidence.

An actual thing George Starostin wrote. so I guess he wouldn't mind me calling Japanese and English related.

Forni: Hi guys! Basque is an Indo-European language. Here are my sound changes!! Please ignore the fact I skipped some in my etymologies. <izar> should really be *izel, but no it isn't!

I found a "paper" on Academia saying that Elamite was an Indo-European language close to Germanic. like no it is not What age is that paper? Because that's batshit crazy. JAL https://www.academia.edu/43984902/Elamite_an_Indo_European_language_close_to_Proto_Germanic_Change_of_laryngeals_t...

I found a "paper" on Academia saying that Elamite was an Indo-European language close to Germanic. like no it is not What age is that paper? Because that's batshit crazy. JAL https://www.academia.edu/43984902/Elamite_an_Indo_European_language_close_to_Proto_Germanic_Change_of_laryngeals_t...

i would do it to see if it's even potentially real Considering the dubiousness of supposed nodes well below that, such as Indo-Uralic, to jump past them when even those nodes are not adequately reconstructed if they are real at all is certain to result in something even more dubious. Yes, well, you...

I hope you're being sarcastic there. i would do it to see if it's even potentially real Considering the dubiousness of supposed nodes well below that, such as Indo-Uralic, to jump past them when even those nodes are not adequately reconstructed if they are real at all is certain to result in someth...

Travis B. wrote: ↑Wed Sep 16, 2026 12:26 pm

Brilliant-Resource14 wrote: ↑Wed Sep 16, 2026 12:19 pm

Travis B. wrote: ↑Wed Sep 16, 2026 11:15 am

Just the idea of trying to connect all these dubious macrofamilies into one super-macrofamily is insane.

I should lowk try to do Borean with the latest reconstructions of the constituent members

I hope you're being sarcastic there.

i would do it to see if it's even potentially real

StarlingDB be like: I wonder what vowel this is... Eurasiatic: a Afroasiatic: a Sino-Caucasian: a Austric: a Amerind: a Macro-Khoisan: a StarlingDB: Hmmm... let me reconstruct *HV (true story btw) Just the idea of trying to connect all these dubious macrofamilies into one super-macrofamily is insan...