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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Swenet: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by anguishofbeing: [qb] Sweetie insists on genetics because he is a... geneticist... :rolleyes: [/qb][/QUOTE]You can always count on the local attention whore, Angstofbeingab!tch, to come to me for her daily dose of attention and confirmation that she's being heard and that everything is ok. Ol' attention whore is quite competent in her (failed) attempts to make her attention-seeking look like aloof sarcasm. [QUOTE]Originally posted by Truthcentric: Amun-Ra's confusion probably has its roots here. He assumes that linguistic relations must always reflect biological affinities, as if people couldn't adopt a language without changing their biological genomes. He cannot fathom the possibility that contemporary Semitic people could share a linguistic heritage with AEs and certain sub-Saharan Africans despite having closer biological ties to Europeans.[/QUOTE]Exactly. That's why he keeps yapping on and on about the genetic distance between Semitic speakers and the populations Obenga clusters under Negro-Egyptian--as if this genetic distance between modern speakers of this phylum has any bearing on the unity of the proto-populations themselves. These Afronuts always have to let politics, emotions and vested interests interfere with what is supposed to be objective science. It is well known that these Afronuts feel uncomfortable with the presence of Berber, and especially Semitic, in close proximity to Egyptian. So much so, that even Ehret has noticed that these Afronuts will get their panties up in a bunch over the demonstrated ties between tongues spoken (today) by light skinned people, and mdw ntr, causing him to feel the need to reassure this portion of his readership. [QUOTE]Originally posted by Truthcentric: That said, if modern Semitic people descend from a genomic and cultural substratum separate from the proto-Semitic speakers, you would think modern Semitic languages would reflect this. I mean, we would find lots of non-Afrasan words and linguistic features peppered through modern Semitic that reflect their descent from non-Afrasan peoples.[/QUOTE]But isn't this the case? I'm pretty sure there is evidence for this out there. Ehret talked about it, but don't ask me where I read it. There is also minor overlap with certain aspects of Indo-European, but as far as I know, this is attributed to interactions with Indo-Europeans rather than remnants of an earlier substrata. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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