Re: Re[3]: [tied] Re: PIE-Arabic Correspondences (was Brugmann's Law

I respect Trask's position but I do feel mass com can
be a first step toward forming a hypothesis but it
only yields OPINION not FACT.
Any mass commers who think they're producing
linguistic historical works by mass com alone are
deluding themselves.
Facts must be validated


--- "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:

> At 10:30:23 PM on Saturday, January 19, 2008, Rick
> McCallister wrote:
>
> > I have nothing against Ruhlen.
>
> I have. Shortly before Larry Trask died, he posted
> quite a
> few examples of Ruhlen's intellectual dishonesty --
> *not*
> just incompetence -- to sci.lang. I also find it
> annoying
> that a crackpot has been so much the public face of
> historical linguistics.
>
> Brian
>
>
>

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