"lumpers"

[proto-language]

Dear Jens and IEists:

 ----- Original Message -----
From: "Jens Elmegaard Rasmussen" <jer at cphling.dk>
Sent: Monday, April 03, 2000 6:39 AM

> On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Hans Holm wrote:

>> [...]
>> I would like to stress that no comparative linguist accepts any publication
>> combined with the names 'Shevoroshkin', Starostin, Bengtson, Ruhlen.....
>> [...]

> Then please accept my resignation from the guild, for I'd like to go on
> being inspired by work done by scholars like these who are not afraid to
> present an idea for consideration before the matter has advanced to the
> point of being self-evident.

> Jens Elmegaard Rasmussen

I would like to whole-heartedly endorse Jens' position here.

Jens himself has had some imaginative ideas that are worthy of serious
consideration; and I am thinking long and hard about possible adequate
answers to his last posting on *e/*o.

Pat

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