Re: Stacking up on standard works

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 69142
Date: 2012-03-31

W dniu 2012-03-31 22:30, Tavi pisze:

> Not at all. What Greenberg and Ruhlen did were mass-comparison,
> something quite different from LONG-RANGE comparison, based on the same
> comparative method which originated in IE studies.

I haven't seen anything remotely resembling the application of the
comparative method (as I know it) in your comparisons. What you do show
us is spurious reconstructions based on imaginary evidence and
unwarranted assumptions, plus a lot of handvawing. This kind of stuff
can't be "refuted" by a specialist for the simple reason that it does
not belong to the real world. But then I have studied linguistics, so I
suppose my academic training clouds my judgement.

Piotr