From: george knysh
Message: 53297
Date: 2008-02-15
>****GK: One group (post-neolithic) designated as "the
>
>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott"
> <BMScott@...>
> wrote:
>
> > At 7:29:39 PM on Thursday, February 14, 2008,
> Patrick Ryan
> > wrote:
>
> > > No, it is part of the barrage of abuse that is
> leveled
> > > against the Nordic ethnos, led by Hollywood, but
> abetted
> > > by other Germanophobes.
> >
> > A sadly revealing comment, but not really
> pertinent to
> > <arya>.
>
>
> For my part, I won't discuss any more with him any
> "arya"-related
> topic (nor, probably, any other sort of topic),
> especially after he
> showed he is unable to point to any lexical material
> whatsoever
> allowing for the reconstruction of a root **HHar-
> (or whatever its
> form be devised), without even clarifying which
> language family or
> macrofamily the same would have belonged in (he
> cited some Sumerian
> root, for example... which has no relation to PIE!).
> Not to speak of
> the meaning 'white/pale' (referred to people's
> complexion) he
> attributes to his fancied and cherished root!.
>
> This is revealing of a mindset, of an ideology, as
> was seen in all
> his subsequent posts in this thread.
>
> It's also funny to figure out those Neolithic folks
> so proud of
> their "white skin", and so contemptous of their
> "dark-skinned"
> neighbours, that they chose a term meaning 'the
> White Ones' as their
> own self-designation!