From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 53830
Date: 2008-02-20
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From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 1:55 PM
Subject: Re: [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
>
I mentioned that Trask insisted that seeming Latin loans to Basque
were nothing but that, and had nothing to do with earlier substrates.
What does Michelena have to do with that?
Torsten