Re: [tied] West bird

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> >As somebody who has
> > actually studied Old Chinese, is up to date with the latest

news

> in the
> > field, and knows more than either of us about Sino-Tibetan
> historical
> > linguistics, Guillaume certainly deserves to be taken

seriously,

> so your
> > irony is misplaced.
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>
> The above does not constitute an appeal to authority? I'm as

willing

> as anybody to consider a good argument, but the quote you

provided

> was devoid of any. And where did you get the idea I was being

ironic?

>
>
> Torsten
>
> ***
> Patrick:
>
> An appeal to authority? How about an appeal to _more_ than

superficial similarity?

Erh, what? What exactly do you mean?

>
> If you are somehow offended by the inclusion of an opinion by

someone who actually studies - on a full-time basis - the subject-
field of your assertions, then you are clearly "out-of-it".

>

I am not offended. I was looking for an argument in the quote and
there wasn't any.

> As for the argument, get a copy of Guillaume, read it, and if

you have any problems with it, then let us hear your counter-
arguments.

I'm up to my ears in two books on Chinese already. I would like
Piotr or any other who read Jacques to supply the argument behind
the unreasoned conclusion in the quote.

> Piotr simply quoted the conclusion of an "expert".

Exactly.

>It was a helpful reference, and information that should be
>considered in this context.

Conclusions without argument are of no help to me.

> Stop flailing around! The quality of your postings used to be

much better.

>

I might come across more agressive that I used to. We Danes are
under some stress these days.


Torsten