Pat's emotions rear their ugly head again:

>Keep repeating that until you are blue in the face, and it will not change
>the fact that I have made up NO cognates. The cognates are the result of
>comparative methodology.

Yes, it is quite true that the facts do not change despite the hue
of your face. Here is a logical arguement completely void of ad
hominems altogether...

I say that *not* all of Pat's cognates are the result of
proper comparative methodology.

1) We will assume however that all of Pat's cognates *are* the
result of proper comparative methodology.

2) Sumerian **ginna is NOT the result of comparative
methodology. (That is, there are no attestations in any
Sumerian dialects to actually *compare* in order to
warrant this form. It is rather the result of _speculation_,
an example of improper comparative methodology.)

3) Thus, at least one of Pat's cognates is *NOT* the result of
proper comparative methodology.

So, in conclusion, Pat's statement is false and my view is
logically valid, via proof by contradiction.

Further, as this above proof shows, Pat is counterlogical at
least occasionally (if not in every instance).

- gLeN

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