From: Michael J Smith
Message: 20353
Date: 2003-03-26
> Michael Smith:if the shoe fits.
> >Steve, you've made a very good point, I completely agree with you.
> >I don't think anyone can refute what you are saying, because, like
> you
> >said, no one knows the linguistic situation at that early
> >date.
>
> I fear for your sanity too. This is ridiculous. Apparently you both
> don't seem to have a problem with using ignorance as an excuse to
> propose anything.
> By the same stretch of half-assed reasoning, we may propose thatif the shoe fits.
> Indo-European was Ukrainian, because in the end, how do we REALLY
> know?
>if the shoe fits.
> That's where reasoning comes in. We must _prioritize_ the
> different ideas and some ideas just don't have the same weight
> based on the facts that we ARE aware of. By all evidence, Hattic
> is more autochthonous than IE, and this is the common scientific
> consensus -- It's not based on some cockamamey cult called
> Christianity... Oops, I meant to say "religion" :)
> The "out-of-Anatolia pre-IE" idea is very low on that list ofif the shoe fits.
> possibilities for the reasons I've provided and for the reasons
> many other authors have provided. Steve only goes contrary to what
> facts we DO know. Why??
>
> Whatever.
>________________________________________________________________
> - gLeN
>
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