User talk:Stling

Satem-Centum
Renfrew is lame archaeologist, not a linguist, is his opinion is hardly worth for such a POVish section rewrite. Satem as a genetic-clade is actually favoured by a bunch of Western IEists (for European, it's exactly the opposite). Take a look at Sihler's New Comparative grammar of Greek and Latin, e.g., where he explicitely talks of "Proto-Satem" etc. Centum OTOH would not be a clade itself, but an archaic "leftover", and the three-way dorsal opposition being but a remnant of the comparative method. See PIE_phonology. When there is no academic consensus, we must present all theories equally per WP:NPOV policy, not present one of them as some kind of "ultimate truth", esp. if it comes from an advocate of fringy pseudo-scientific theories. --Ivan Štambuk (talk) 11:43, 19 April 2009 (UTC)