Gentoo studies (details on SR)

[George Thompson]

What kind of argument is this?:

>I can remember a river mentioned in the Rgveda
>as evidence of knowledge of a foreign "Aryan" homeland based on
>sound resemblance alone.

Can you remember anything else?

GT

At 06:37 AM 6/3/1999 -0700, you wrote:
>Michael Witzel wrote:
>>
>> 4. All other points have been left *unsanwered* by SR.  Even according to
>> his own ideal of 'logical' vivADa, rather unsatisfactory.
>>
>> Final Grade: "topic not dealt with in any detail",  therefore "F" , or
>> equivalent low percentage (in the Indian system).
>>
>>
>
>I would give Michael Witzel and "F" for openmindness.  I can remember
>some time back when he suggested a river mentioned in the Rgveda
>as evidence of knowledge of a foreign "Aryan" homeland based on
>sound resemblance alone.  That type of thing hearkens back to the days
>of Colonel Tod.
>
>Regards,
>Paul Kekai Manansala
>
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