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Patrick C. Ryan proto-language at email.msn.com
Fri Mar 12 00:53:28 UTC 1999


Dear Glen and IEists:

-----Original Message-----
From: Glen Gordon <glengordon01 at hotmail.com>
Date: Thursday, March 11, 1999 5:51 PM

<snip>

>Conjecture IS BY DEFINITION "guesswork". Look it up in a dictionary and
>come back to me. What makes good conjecture from bad conjecture is the
>amount of likelihood a hypothesis has and how much it explains. This is
>how we can logically dismiss theories such as Pat's Sumerian Invention
>Process against the likelier scenario that Sumerian evolved like any
>other language from an earlier form. Or do you accept this as a credible
>possibility?!

"Pat" has never proposed a "Sumerian Invention Process" or anything vaguely
like it --- ever. I assume that "Sumerian evolved like any other language
from an earlier form".

Does the name Halloran ring a bell by any chance?

 Pat



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