Re: A question for Chris Gwinn

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "CG" <sonno3@...> wrote:

> > And then suddenly I'm no longer a member of Brittonica, of which
> > Chris is the moderator. I'm sure there must have been some

mistake;

> > the alternative scenario, that I was thrown out of a list

without

> > explanation by a moderator who ran out of arguments and feared
> > others on the list might catch on to the idea of a Nordwestblock
> > substrate in the British Isles I won't even contemplate.
> >
> > Do you have any comments, Chris?
>
> Yes - my list is for the _academic_ study of the Brittonic

languages -

> not for immature, ill-informed speculation on non-Celtic

languages

> (I mean, the fact that you would use late Latin loans in Irish to
> prove that there was a Nordwestblock substrate in Ireland is about

as

> stupid as you could get - yet when you were confronted with this

fact

> you remained obstinate about it).

You seem to have forgotten I placed the whole exchange on this list
for everyone to see. Wrt to Latin 'pecca' and 'palma' they have so
many cognates in NWEuropean IE languages, including Nordwestblock,
and they have the un-Latin traits of a geminated -kk- and an -a-
vocalism, respectively, that one has to consider the possibility
they were borrowed into Celtic from the same NWEuropean source,
without first making the diversion into Latin. Of course 'pecca' is
influenced by Christian terminology, but it doesn't mean it couldn't
have been borrowed earlier. Since that's a possibility, I can't
leave them out with a good conscience if I write a list of possible
NWBlock loans.

>If I thought you were genuinely
> interested in a two-way exchange of ideas I would have allowed you

to

> stay on the list, but knowing you and your tendencies to engage in
> monologues and beat dead horses ad nauseum I decided to spare my

list

> a flurry of ridiculous spam from you.
>

You mean ad nauseam? It's a Latin loan, BTW

> It is laughable that you would suggest I "ran out of arguments"! I
> could have argued for days - weeks - months with you, critiquing

and

> refuting every one of your idiotic points - but why should I

bother??

> I don't have the time or patience to bother with a troll like you.
>
>

If that is so, how come the above contains nothing but ad hominems,
and no arguments?


Torsten