Re[6]: [tied] Re: Renfrew's theory renamed as Vasco-Caucasian

At 3:49:01 AM on Thursday, September 20, 2007, Rick
McCallister wrote:

> Even though Trask pointed out that much of Basque toponymy
> is of Celtic origin and possibly even the word Basque, he
> only considered about 5 or 10 Basque words to be of Celtic
> origin and refused to consider any other possible
> pre-Roman IE languages that were known to be in the area
> such as Lusitanian and Ligurian

How do you distinguish 'refused to consider' from 'gave due
consideration to and dismissed'?

Brian