Re: [tied] Re: Almost NO Indian or Iranian scholars active in IE li

At 9:35:11 AM on Saturday, February 28, 2004, mkelkar2003 wrote:

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

>> At 11:56:55 PM on Friday, February 27, 2004, mkelkar2003
>> wrote:

>>> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "wtsdv" <liberty@...>
>>> wrote:

>>>> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "mkelkar2003"
>>>> <smykelkar@...> wrote:

>>>>> and given the fact the Vedic tradition is the oldest
>>>>> surviving IE tradition, with the Iranians not far
>>>>> behind, there are NO Indian or Iranian scholars listed
>>>>> on the IE linguistic webpage maintained by Univ Texas
>>>>> Austin.

[...]

>>Your claim was that there were no Indian scholars listed on
>> the site; if these are Indian, they count, irrespective of
>> their views or when they worked.

> I said almost no.

On the contrary, you said very emphatically that there are
none. Your actual words are still quoted at the top of this
post for all to see. I hope that you are more accurate in
your own work, whatever it may be.

Do you have anything of scientific substance to say, or are
you just interested in making political statements?

Brian