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=========================================================================<br></div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe"><span class="EP8xU" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">Luc Hellinckx</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:luc.hellinckx@gmail.com">luc.hellinckx@gmail.com</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe">LL-L "Language use"<br><br></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Beste Jonny, Ron and Jorge,</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Jonny wrote:</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<blockquote style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" type="cite">
<div><span>Dear Ron,</span></div>
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span>you wrote about the collection of
<font size="2">Marcelo Jolkesky:</font></span></div>
<div> </div>
<div><font color="#008080">I'm
not quite sure all this was meant to be serious.<br>
<br>
What's up with all those engs (ŋ), anyhow? Is it a decoding problem?<br>
<br>
Where did he get the Indo-European data? For instance, where I come
from Indo-European for 'bind' is *<i>bhindh-</i> (cf. Sanskrit भन्ध- <i>bhandh-</i>
and भिन्ध- <i>bhindh</i>).</font><br>
</div>
<div> </div>
<div><span>Exactly these were my own
thoughts when I looked into the collection!</span></div>
</blockquote>
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Whether those German words are part of a Uralic substrate or rather
cognates within a broader, more distant Indo-Uralic context is probably
better explained by Frederik Kortlandt, a professor at the Dutch Leiden
university. You can find him here: </span><a style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" href="http://www.kortlandt.nl/" target="_blank">http://www.kortlandt.nl/</a><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Especially document 203e (found under "Other electronic publications")
is worth the read.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Jolkesky himself graduated at the Universidade Federal de Santa
Catarina in Brazil, according to Wikipedia one of the best
Latin-American universities for research. His dissertation was
supervised by Markus Weininger and Werner Heidermann.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
There may not yet be complete consensus on this topic among
professionals, but as far as I can judge, none of this classifies as
bogus.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Kind greetings,</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" color="#888888">
<br>
Luc Hellinckx</font><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">