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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...>
wrote:
>
> Tavi:.
> A bunch of snippets about this and that doesn't amount to anything
coherent. If you're going to reinvent the wheel, you have to reinvent
the whole thing, assemble it, test it, make it cost worthy and then
market it.
> Maybe you need the Spanish equivalent of an NEH award, so you can go
to libraries and devise something coherent and then after 3 years of
monastic work, reveal your COMPLETED findings.
> If you don't want to do that level of stakhanovite work, then
re-consider.
> Look at Bomhard, he takes the conzertmeister route. He trusts the
authority of world famous linguists and lets them do a lot of the heavy
lifting. He then picks up his baton and choreographs a Nostratic
symphony by incorporating what he considers as complementary and
coherent relationships. Now, he has to rely on the often glacial and
very uneven pace of historical linguistics in various families and has
to rewrite and rethink sections when theories are overturned, but it's a
wise place to be if you're dealing with such vast fields of information.
>
Rick, did you have you read this?
http://vasco-caucasian.blogspot.com/2011/11/indo-european-horses.html