From: mkelkar2003
Message: 53319
Date: 2008-02-15
>What bothers me is comparative linguists reach above and beyond what
> At 12:46:01 AM on Friday, February 15, 2008, mkelkar2003
> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> >> Why do you waste our time (and yours) with these repeated
> >> attempts to find *linguistic* support for your
> >> ideological axioms when you clearly don't believe that
> >> linguistic evidence is worth a damn? If it's worthless,
> >> it's just as worthless when (you think that) it says what
> >> you want to hear as when it doesn't.
>
> > Acutally, I am not saying linguistic evidence is
> > worthless, [...]
>
> You don't have to say it in so many words: it's quite
> obvious that this is what you really believe. You use your
> ill-understood snippets only as weapons of debate, not out
> of any interest in linguistics, and you value them only
> insofar as they serve your intellectual cause.
>
> Brian