Re[5]: [tied] Re: PIE-Arabic Correspondences (was Brugmann's Law)

At 11:05:19 PM on Saturday, January 19, 2008, Rick
McCallister wrote:

> --- "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 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.

I don't know that I've heard anyone, including Trask,
seriously object to that idea. And mass comparison was not
the issue in the examples that I mentioned.

[...]

Brian