PIE vs. Proto-World (Proto-Language)

[Ralf-Stefan Georg]

>Pat responds:

>There is no *tangible* way for us to ever know whether languages arose
>monogenetically or polygenetically however most linguists, even when they
>deny its recoverability, have correctly weighed the odds of mono- vs.
>polygenesis, and subscribe to monogenesis. If a probablistically calculated
>hypothesis is "ideology", then everything done in historical linguistics is
>"ideology".

"most linguists" ???????????????
I'm flabbergasted. I would like to know *one* of those, who did/does what
you claim "most linguists" do.

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