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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Marco Moretti"
<marcomoretti69@...> wrote:
>
>
> ALL FOLK ETYMOLOGIES ARE FALSE. Is for this reason that we call
them
> FOLK etymologies.
Nice generalization. Hope we talk more about these but I think I
already made you a little...
They are a bogus product of people's ignorance.
> Allways. So folk etymologies of Arabs or folks etymologies of
> Europeans are in any way bogus due to their own definition.
> We should be scientists.
I wonder how scientist you are.
Only Science provides some knoledge.
Really. Maybe that is your definition.
> If you don't believe that languages undergo natural evolution by
> means of REGULAR phonetic changes, perhaps you should subscrive
some
> magical, mystical group rather than a linguistic one.
I am subscribed to many and I do not find much difference about the
knowledge they give and the knowledge that 'scientific linguists'
give.
> Folk etymology is an infection that blur and obscure any
possibility
> to know something for sure, and all scientists must reject it!
Wow, what a statement.
> My ideas about Arabs are not very popular, so I prefer not to go
on
> with this idle discussion.
Ow. So the reason.
> I think the moderators should prohibit posts like yours because
they
> are quite obnoxious.
>
> Marco
Well who is obnoxious now?
To tell you something. For your information, I am an Austronesian
and I think you may have known that beforehand. I am Philippine and
that is my strongest point about this zany IE-Austronesian
association. But that could also be the strongest argument against
my motives about these.
But I can't help it. I came to join Cybalist because I was thinking
that to prove or disprove some things about the seeming associations
it is highly useful to be on an IE site and perhaps talk to INdo-
europeanists.
Therefore you're suggestion of not asking Arabs about themselves is
I think a backward cowardly attitude. Comparing then, ask the
opinion of anyone if I am not more pro-active. I am a risk-taker.
I'll be waiting for anyone who will take side on you on this. I'll
be loving to see who is the next chicken. I am willing to change my
views if they are worth changing. How about you?
Ask the Arabs to know the Arabs not just watch them through your
looking glass. Who knows you may be able to understand them and they
you and perhaps we contribute to the maintenance of Peace.
Is it not what you asked before in Austronesian?
Peace. Pax. Paz. Salam.
Loreto