# Some words have not changed for 15,000 years!

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**Created:** [May 8, 2013, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-words-have-not-changed-for-15-000-years/657761 "2013-05-08T01:55:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2013, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-words-have-not-changed-for-15-000-years/657761/40 "2013-09-06T16:17:06Z")

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septimus writes:

\> I am quite aware that most Amerindian specialists reject the Amerindian  
\> hypothesis. (Note that they would have important career-related motives for  
\> doing so.)

Oh, come on. You can’t do any better than “There’s obviously a conspiracy among the professionals in this field”? You’re claiming that the linguistics professors of the world who specialize in American Indian languages are a tightly-knit group who regularly get together to control the world? They are the ones responsible for wars, depressions, and, just incidentally, declarations that anyone who claims to have reconstructed the earliest forms of American Indian ancestral languages is a crank. Why did I ever leave the field thirty-six years ago? If I had stayed, you would all be bowing before me in terror.

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