Re: [tied] Two questions about list rules

Christopher Culver:

> 1) Doesn't M. Kelkar's quest finally qualify as an
> idee fixe and thus should be prohibited from
> further discussion on the list?

Precisely. Idees fixes are not being recognized for
what they are on other linguistic forums, leading to
anti-intellectual hijacking.

> 2) This list is clearly meant to be about
> Indo-European only, with concerns about IE's role
> in a larger language family meant for other lists.
> Why, then, has no one warned Patrick, who
> continually brings up Egyptian etc. in his posts?

Precisely, yet again. I am suspect of his free reign
on the Nostratic-L as well where I'm merely heckled
if I should oppose his nonsense with facts.

It appears that complacency and self-censorship is
the modern Plague.


= gLeN





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