Nors Josephson's Theory about a linguistic and cultural influence of Ancient Greek on East-Polynesia

[Larry Trask]

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I've just had a look at the little Web page recommended for Nors Josephson's
idea of Greeks in the Pacific around 950 BC.  For anyone who enjoys this sort
of thing, I'd like to cite a much earlier scholar who developed not only the
idea of Greek words in the Pacific, but also the idea of Hawaiian words in the
pre-Columbian Americas, and indeed all other conceivable permutations of such
notions:

Arnold D. Wadler (1948), One Language: Source of All Tongues, New York:
American Press for Art and Science.

The late Professor Dr. Wadler, whose colorful academic career is movingly
described in a brief preface, was there firstest with the mostest.  Nobody who
is interested in pan-global linguistic connections can afford to overlook this
masterpiece of 1930s multilateral comparison, now sadly out of print.  Joe
Greenberg, eat your heart out. ;-)

Larry Trask
COGS
University of Sussex
Brighton BN1 9QH
UK

larryt at cogs.susx.ac.uk