Re[9]: [tied] Re: PIE-Arabic Correspondences (was Brugmann's Law)

At 6:23:34 PM on Sunday, January 20, 2008, fournet.arnaud
wrote:

> From: Brian M. Scott

>>> I have pondered issues of methods for long, What you are
>>> expressing is just a "can't be done" dogma.

>> As Richard points out, it isn't quite 'can't be done',
>> and it isn't dogma: it's basic science.

[...]

> I think it's little use discussing why it **must** be
> impossible.

Until you show some signs of understanding the actual
argument, discussion is indeed useless.

[...]

> I suppose people like you would never help somebody go to
> the moon because it is **obviously** impossible to do.

You suppose wrong: it was obviously a theoretical
possibility even before I was born.

Brian