From: tgpedersen
Message: 53835
Date: 2008-02-20
> ----- Original Message -----So? Did Mechelena give him the idea that seeming Latin loans can't be
> 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?
>
> Michelena was his teacher.
>
>
> Patrick