Re: Ash

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From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 12:30 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Ash



> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
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> Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 9:16 AM
> Subject: [tied] Ash
>
>

<snip>

> BTW, there are similar problems with the supposed Latin loans in
> Basque, which Trask was so dismissive of alternatives to: many of
> them also have suspect PIE etymologies.
>
>
> Torsten
>
--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...>
wrote:
>
> Trask was a brilliant man whose one peccadillo, AISI, was his
> worshipful attitude towards Michelena, whose analyses range from
> adequate to laughable.

And how is this unfounded value judgement relevant to the above?


Torsten

***

So, Tortsen, only your value judgments are "founded"?

You brought Trask and his sometimes seemingly illogical behavior up; I was
explaining what I think the motivation for some of it was.


Patrick