Re: Origin of *h2arh3-trom 'plough'

At 10:10:13 AM on Tuesday, June 5, 2012, Tavi wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott"
> <bm.brian@...> wrote:

>> No. I'm pointing out that your quasi-religious faith that
>> 'these Germanic-Afrasian (especially Semitic) isoglosses
>> must reflect the languages spoken in Central Europe
>> Neolithic' is just that: an article of faith. Linguistic
>> conclusions require linguistic support.

> I'm sure you're acquainted with Bomhard's and Vennemann's
> work (I hope you won't call them "Pyramidiots" or other
> silly word.), are you? This where I inferenced my
> conclusion.

No, since they don't (so far as I know) engage in that
particular form of crackpottery. I'm not in a position to
judge Bomhard's work. Venneman's ideas are interesting, but
his arguments are unpersuasive, to say the least; I note
that even the most sympathetic reviewers of the EV-ES
collection were skeptical of a lot of the argumentation.