Thread:User talk:Rua/Unexplained deletions: continuing what appears to be a common theme/reply (11)

Without expertise about each and every language included in the hypothesis, the author cannot evaluate the claims that they themselves are making. That is also my main point. I know Germanic, Slavic, Italic, they are all difficult by the languages included in them, and I still do not dare doing Indo-European reconstruction. What competence has he who wants to reconstruct Nostratic? Of course all goes by wordlists and statistics ignoring all laws of grammar and sounds and regular correspondences which one learns if one deals with multiple languages of a family. This way in StarLing there are all kinds of wildcards for which one could easily posit the correct phonemes if one knew the languages. And of course a user who does that statistics and wildcard thing does not have a babel box.