Re: Basque onddo

At 3:08:14 PM on Sunday, November 11, 2012, Tavi wrote:

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

>>>> You are an incompetent fool.

>>> I agree. An Italian colleague of mine once said that the
>>> British land didn't produce real linguists but only
>>> *crackpots*.

>> Irrelevant: I'm not British. Neither are a majority of my
>> ancestors, for that matter. And neither was Edwin B.
>> Williams, the Hispanicist whose views I was paraphrasing.

> I think Trask would be good example of what my colleague said.

Which merely proves yet again that you're incompetent to
judge. I've no doubt that he was wrong about some things --
who isn't? -- but calling him a crackpot merely makes you
look ridiculous. Again.

>>> Mistaking Portuguese <n> for a "consonantal /n/" is an
>>> example of sheer incompetence.

>> I'm perfectly well aware of the use of <n> as a nasal
>> diacritic in Portuguese orthography. The terminology
>> 'consonantal n' is Williams's, not mine. He appears to
>> take the view that a consonantal /n/ *did* develop in
>> certain settings and subsequently dropped, leaving a
>> nasalized vowel.

> Actually <bento> *has* an etymological /n/ from the former
> <beneito>.

I never said otherwise. Do try to read a little better.