PIE vs. Proto-World (Proto-Language)

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>(Patrick C. Ryan)

 > -- with minor exceptions (such as "kuku"), words _are_ arbitrary sound
 > assemblages.

>Pat writes:

>Why do you not explain to us all why that is true? I am firmly convinced
>that it is unequivocally incorrect.

-- because any sound within the human range will do as well as any other for
any given referent.  A rose may be a znfargle.

Humans have the capacity to learn a language, but not any particular
language; a language must have words, but not any particular words.