Re: apples on a stick

At 4:51:06 AM on Wednesday, December 19, 2007, Francesco
Brighenti wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan"
> <proto-language@...> wrote:

>> If Arnaud seriously thinks anyone could linguistically
>> connect Akkadian _supurgillu_ and English _superglue_,
>> then perhaps this is not the place for him.

> Sorry to point this out, but I checked the archives and I
> found that it was _you_, not Arnaud, who (unnecessarily)
> introduced by joke the supurgillu :: superglue comparison.

We know this. Patrick made a joke based on the superficial
similarity between <supurgillu> and <superglue>, and because
Arnaud seems to have taken it a bit too seriously, he is now
wondering how anyone with any knowledge of linguistics could
fail to recognize it as a joke.

I actually thought that it was rather funny. The 'merde de
bouche' comment that followed it was much less so and was
probably the main reason for Arnaud's explosion; we could
have done without it.

> Therefore, your remark quoted above is highly misleading.
> Why do you attribute that absurd lexical comparison of
> yours to poor Arnaud?

He doesn't.

Brian