From: Rick McCallister
Message: 53326
Date: 2008-02-15
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott"____________________________________________________________________________________
> <BMScott@...> wrote:
> >
> > 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
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glottochronology
>
> How is the "Indo-Aryan" invasion, transhumance
> (Witzel 2003, very
> interesting word indded!), migration, trickling a
> fact if it could
> have happend any where between 4500 BCE to 1500 BCE
> and the
> transhumans could have come from anywhere from
> Turkey to Russian
> Steppes?
>
> M. Kelkar
>
>
>
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