Re[2]: [tied] Ban all non academic discussions

At 5:02:37 PM on Sunday, April 20, 2008, mkelkar2003 wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
> <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>> On 2008-04-20 13:44, kishore patnaik wrote:

>>> You are a linguist. How can you judge the dating aspect
>>> as crank when the dating is done by scientists of
>>> yesteryears?

>> I _can_ question the reasoning that leads to such
>> datings. It has precious little to do with science,
>> whether social or natural, but everything to do with
>> arbitrary interpretation and wishful thinking.

> There is nothing particulary scientific about linguistic
> methods of dating either.

Obviously irrelevant even if true.

Brian