Biology trumps linguistics?

[Michael Newman]

Wait, no. It should have shown the Truth. It was right at the Tower of Babel!!
Actually, a colleague once had a distraught student tell her after a language origins unit in a 101, that this violated what her preacher said.




Michael Newman
Associate Professor of Linguistics
Queens College/CUNY
michael.newman at qc.cuny.edu



On Aug 25, 2012, at 5:35 AM, Eric Nielsen wrote:

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> Turkey or Armenia?
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> Eric
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> On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> But of course it did! Right at the foot of Mt. Ararat, in the shadow of
>> Noah's Ark. So did every other family tree--they just haven't tested
>> /that/ hypothesis yet.
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>>     VS-)
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>> On 8/24/2012 1:07 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>>> "Family Tree of [Indo-European] Languages Has Roots in Anatolia,
>>> Biologists Say", by Nicholas Wade.
>>> NYTimes, today (Aug. 24), A8 (N.E. Edition).
>>> http://tinyurl.com/bw59qly
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>>> (The illustration's legend begins with an unfortunate sentence: "A
>>> new study suggests that the sprawling Indo-European family of
>>> languages originated in Anatolia, or modern-day Turkey."  Surely the
>>> I-E family did not originate in modern-day Turkey.)
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>>> Joel
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