latin stuff

From: Chuck Guzis Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2011 5:33 PM Si vales, valeo. Not surprising, given that it is a member of an entirely different family, Uralic, which is not demonstrably related at a time depth of less than 10,000 years before the present to the Indo-European family (of which Latin is a member). 20 years ago I was willing to entertain the Nostratic hypothesis, which posits a familial relationship among Indo-European, Uralic, Altaic[1], Kartvelian[2], Dravidian[3], and possibly Etruscan, but the efforts of three very talented linguists to demonstrate such a relationship give rise to three massively conflicting reconstructions, so that the only conclusion to be reached is "not provable." I no longer consider it a viable area in which to work. Te videbimus. Scribe si laborem obtinas. Rich Alderson Vintage Computing Sr. Server Engineer Vulcan, Inc. 505 5th Avenue S, Suite 900 Seattle, WA 98104 mailto:RichA at vulcan.com mailto:RichA at LivingComputerMuseum.org http://www.LivingComputerMuseum.org/