From: elmeras2000
Message: 33384
Date: 2004-07-05
--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, enlil@... wrote:
[Glen:]
> >> Jens' insistence that Proto-Semitic "had no vowels" because it
has
> >> no evidence of the lexical use of vowels is a perfect example of
> >> the wrongheaded "absence is proof" mentality.
[Jens:]
> > Whatever mentality I display or suppress is off-topic.
[Glen:]
> Off-topic? This was not in any way meant as an ad hominem, as
aggravating
> as you can be sometimes.
My mentality is *most certainly* a personal matter and not something
to be discussed on the list. There could hardly be a more direct and
unethical ad-hominem attack than this. It does not make it any
better that you go on violating the standards that should give us
all tolerable conditions in what could be a constructive debate.
It is only two or three days ago we were instructed very explicitly
how to conduct a proper debate on this list. I refer you to message
no. 33336 and refuse to go into anything like responding in kind.
Jens