[Re: Stacking up on standard works

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

>
> > Yes, but unfortunately not all the linguists agree on the

"reliability

> > threshold", that is, the point beyond coincidences are spurious and

due

> > to chance. This why for example long-range compartivists appear to

be

> > suspicious to the eyes of IE-ists.
>
> What you regard as evidence would appear equally suspicious to the

eyes

> of Uralicists, Austronesianists, Australists, Mesoamericanists,
> Khoisanists and all professional practicioners of the comparative

method

> (the usual eccentrics and the lunatic fringe aside).
>

Thank you for your feedback. Now let's get back to work.