IE *k^won and its origin

[Glen Gordon]

ADAM HYLLESTED:
  In "On the Origin of Languages", Stanford Univ. Press 1994,
  J.D.Bengtson and M.Ruhlen boldly add probable cognates from a wide
  range of other language families, even khoisan.
ME (GLEN):
  Khoisan isn't usually considered to be Nostratic nor Dene-Caucasian.
  What are they trying to reconstruct with these cognates? Not
  Proto-World I hope.
MODERATOR:
  That is precisely what they are trying to reconstruct.

Oh-oh. Speaking of theories that should be quickly nipped in the
bud...

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Glen Gordon
glengordon01 at hotmail.com

[ Moderator's response:
  Or discussion moved to the Nostratic list--where they have been beaten to
  death on more than one occasion.
  --rma ]