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Subject: Re: On the Dispilio (mystery) tablets ... a PS
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The existence of Indo-European or Indo-Germanic is as obvious to anyone who
has taken the trouble to investigate the question as is your abysmal
ignorance of almost any subject you take up in your postings on this list.

J.F. Gannon

> Now, I hope that nobody decides to put words in my mouth or misconstrue my
> intention... but, I was under the impression that the proto Indo-European
> origin theory was just that... a *theory*, one that lacks any conclusive
> evidence for its establishment.  Has there been any hard evidence produced
> for the existence of proto-Indo-European, aside from relatively recent
> conjectural linguistics?  Have there been any discoveries of inscriptions
> etc., in the so-called proto Indo-European `language'?  Exactly how and
when
> did the proto Indo-European theory develop?
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Sotiris Sotiropoulos
>
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