Re: [tied] Pronunciation of "r" - again?

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From: "david_russell_watson" <liberty@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 1:48 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] Pronunciation of "r" - again?


> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...>
> wrote:
> >
> > You might want to consider what the late and, by me,
> > at least, lamented Larry Trask thought about it all.
>
> "By me, at least"?! You make it sound as if Trask weren't
> widely appreciated and missed, which he most certainly is,
> or that those who don't ascribe to your own theories are
> somehow going against Trask by doing so, when the truth is
> again quite the opposite.
>
> It always amuses me how you try to invoke the late great
> Larry Trask as your personal patron saint, and surely he
> turns over in his grave every time you do!

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Patrick:

I have saved megabytes of correspondence conducted personally between Trask
and myself on a variety of issues for about three years. I doubt sincerely
that his demise changed the mutual respect we had for each other.

It is rather cowardly to ascribe sentiments to a dead man who can no longer
express his own sentiments.

With whom have you corresponded regarding your ideas, presuming you have
any?

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> > He was willing to concede that all languages stem from a single
> > source just as human beings do;
>
> Most of us in this argument concede the same, or at least
> that the I.E. family is most likely related in some way
> to others. I know that I certainly have, most recently at
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/41286 .
> So then what would you have us learn from Trask in that
> regard that we don't already know?


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Patrick:

That all languages stem from one common source. I though most readers would
get that from the quote. Why did you not?

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> > his major objection to Nostratic (and earlier groupings) was only
> > that he did not think languages at such great time-depths could
> > actually be reconstructed.
>
> And I agree with Trask on that too, and so on both of your
> points my thinking is closer to Trask's than yours. I ask
> therefore again: in exactly what way do you imagine you're
> privy to the wisdom of Trask that the rest of us are not?
>
> Please invoke him no more.
>
> David

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Patrick:

I am surprised this email did not come on the screen in green.

I will invoke whomever I choose whenever I choose so long as it is germane
to the subjects discussed on this list.

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