Re: Vandals

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> ...

>>>> [He] is only interested in finding evidence in science
>>>> which supports this prejudice.

>>> Of course.

>> If you were a real scientist, you'd also be interested in
>> subjecting your 'theories' to rigorous testing.

> That's why I offer them here.

You really just don't get it, do you? *You* have a fundamental
responsibility to do at least some basic testing, preferably
*before* you dump them here. Take that list of Breton-Slovenian
look-alikes: what was the point of inflicting it on us? The
authors obviously know nothing of linguistics, so there's no
reason to suppose that it means any more than any other crank's
list of surface similarities. Might there be a valuable nugget
amongst the obvious crap? Of course there *might*, but there's
absolutely no evidence pointing in that direction, and hence no
reason to look.

[...]

> The view you, George and others represent insists that those sources
> concerning the history of Germanic-speaking peoples which refer to
> native traditions should be dismissed out of hand,

This is obviously false, since it's apparent from our posts that
neither George nor I dismisses them _out_of_hand_.

> thus treated differently from other sources, a prejudice which is
> ideologically motivated as can be seen in George's past insistence
> that I am an 'Odinist'.

This is utter nonsense from start to finish. Your interpretation
of George's use of 'Odinist' is as far off the mark as Kishore's
insistence a while back that he'd been threatened by Francesco.

[...]

>> By the way, George left out at least one: routinely
>> appealing to invisible 'data', justified on the grounds that
>> it belonged to an unrecorded 'low' register.

> Please don't misrepresent me.

I'm not: that's exactly what you do.

> I sometimes posit words in low register; I never call that 'data',

I didn't say that you did; the quotation marks are scare quotes.

> they are proposals for earlier forms, [...]

Which you then treat as established fact.

Brian