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[edit] "Language spreads by devious ways": Conversation with an Aku-Aku
"We were talking about a possible link between Malays and short-ears," I said. "What would your view be, as an aku-aku, if language said yes and race said no?"
"If language suggested that Harlem negroes and Utah Indians came from England, I'd back the race experts."
"Let us stick to the Pacific. You're a fool if you ignore the conclusions of the language experts. Language just doesn't blow by itself with the wind."
"Language spreads by devious ways," said my aku-aku. "It certainly doesn't blow by itself against the wind."
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- --Thor Heyerdahl, Aku-Aku (1958) p. 331
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