Re: Grimm shift as starting point of "Germanic"

At 6:22:25 AM on Tuesday, March 18, 2008, tgpedersen wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott"
> <BMScott@...> wrote:

>> At 6:05:37 PM on Monday, March 17, 2008, tgpedersen
>> wrote:

>>> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott"
>>> <BMScott@> wrote:

[...]

>>>> I omitted it because I thought that anyone reading the
>>>> definition without prejudice would have seen that it
>>>> answered the allegation satisfactorily. I still think so.

>>> Pfft. Anything you haven't heard before is 'prejudice' to
>>> you.

>> Eh? *You're* the one who's having trouble with the
>> concept, not I.

> No, little Brian, when Torsten disagrees with something
> which is in the books, it is not because he hasn't
> understood it.

'Having trouble with X' covers more possibilities than just
'failing to understand X'. I have no idea whether your
problem with the idea is lack of understanding, prejudice,
or something else altogether. It doesn't appear to be the
result of any considered analysis, however, since all that
you've offered against the notion is rhetorical flourishes
and apparent misunderstanding.

[...]

>> I'm partly illustrating the possible range of expressive
>> formations and partly emphasizing that it's a fuzzy
>> category, since you seem to be having trouble with that.

> Erh, no, I was not having trouble with understanding that.

Very likely not. You were, however, having trouble with the
fact, in that you were holding its fuzziness against it.

> You're the youngest brother, aren't you?

No. I'm the eldest in the family, with three younger
brothers and three younger sisters.

Brian