Sam Wrote:
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> Ok. I read the thread posted by Doug, and quite
> frankly, there was not much I could take from it.
> Most of what it says just doesn't apply to the
> particular set of circumstances in Eastern
> American history. Trying to compare the Eastern
> Native language groups vocabularies with that type
> of model is essentially like trying to throw a
> baseball with your foot. Basically, overkill in
> the opposite direction from those who see
> similarity behind every bush. If there were two
> languages so closely related as to fit that model,
> I doubt one would need the services of a linguist
> to figure it out.

Actually what the piece argues is that completely unrelated languages can have quite a few similar words.
Bernard

Here, linguists would do much
> better on the grammar side of things.