[Lexicog] Austronesian and Inuit

[William J Poser]

Mike's comment on the Tagalog wictionary provides the
perfect opportunity to amuse you with the following,
which is an accurate citation from a real journal
article:


W.W. Schumacher (1976)
"Warm and Cold, Canoe and Kayak: Evidence for a Relationship
Austronesian-Eskimo?"
Zeitschrift fuer Phonetik 29.167-169.

ftnt 13, p. 169.

>From the viewpoint of scientific intuition, it may be of interest
to hear how the question(s) raised here came across the author: It
all started with that one of my colleagues, a Japanese, was asked by
his Danish barber: "Are you from Greenland [i.e. an Eskimo]?"
I hope to add the Japanese element in a later contribution.

--
Bill Poser, Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~wjposer/ billposer at alum.mit.edu


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