If you've seen, as I have, "Ile-de-France"
analysed as a Turkic toponym, you'd agree that some sites had better not be
mentioned at all lest they be dignified. I see no merit in criticising a
pseudolinguistic website where every friggin sentence is rubbish. One very real
danger is that people who can't be bothered to follow linguistic arguments and
therefore don't quite understand your critique will nevertheless check your
reference, find the stuff fascinating and start integrating it into their own
theories, writing long postings about it in the meantime.
Piotr
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Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 4:12 AM
Subject: [tied] Kooky sites collection
That's like saying that movie reviews sway people from
watching movies. I think it's high time that linguistic sites were critiqued and
rated, even brutally so when warranted and there are some sites out there that
are just begging to be bad-mouthed.