Re: Grimm shift as starting point of "Germanic"

From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 55463
Date: 2008-03-18

Your predilection for fuzziness is detracting from your effectiveness.

The German caught fuzzitis from us.

Please do not try to infect the French.



Patrick


----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>
To: "tgpedersen" <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 10:15 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] 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
>
>
>