Re: [tied] Re: Genetic Studies and Aryan Migrations

At 9:53:32 AM on Sunday, December 10, 2006, mkelkar2003
wrote:

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

>>> "Indo-European," "Indo-Iranian" and so forth are not facts.

>> Here's a fact for you:
>> The Indo-Aryan languages are more similar to the Iranian
>> languages than they are to the Dravidian languages.

> "The historian of religions Ulf Drobin clarifies
> Trubetskoy's point: "all classification must stem from
> criteria. The followers of the language tree theory avoid
> definite criteria and replace them with a concept of
> language that is BOTH changeable (in time) and constant
> (Indo-European). In the final analysis they end up in
> paradoxes and mysticism. (Arvidsson 2006, p.297, emphasis
> and parentheses in the original)."

Yet another non sequitur.

And if this is representative of Drobin's understanding of
linguistics, he should stick to a subject that he
understands. Doesn't say much for Arvidsson, either, but
then, we've already seen that he's willing to make
groundless insinuations of racism
(<http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/46304>).
Your quotations from him make a pretty good case that he's
to be trusted neither for the linguistics nor for its
history.

Brian