Re: CHAT: proto-language

On Fri, 11 Dec 1998, Joshua Shinavier wrote:

> Hello to the natlang-educated on this list :)
Hey now, it isn't MY fault!

> A long time ago I saw a TV program about evolutionary linguistics
> where a scientist claimed to have found a word (the meaning had to do
> with milk, "to suckle", IIRC) which was common, in variation, to all
> families of languages;
All that I can add for you is that I saw the same program and took a note
to explore it detail (and never actually did). Perhaps this helps: the
show was aired on my local PBS station (Channel 11 in NH if I remember
right... I haven't watched much TV lately) sometime in the vicinity of
Sept 2nd, 1995.

- Tundra