Re: Re[2]: [tied] Re: Mitanni and Matsya

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick McCallister" <gabaroo6958@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2008 2:50 PM
Subject: Re: Re[2]: [tied] Re: Mitanni and Matsya


>
> --- Patrick Ryan <proto-language@...> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>
> > To: "Patrick Ryan" <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
> > Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2008 1:45 PM
> > Subject: Re[2]: [tied] Re: Mitanni and Matsya
> >
> >
> > > At 2:02:20 PM on Sunday, April 6, 2008, Patrick
> > Ryan wrote:
> > >
> > > > From: "david_russell_watson"
> > <liberty@...>
> > >
> > > >> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan"
> > > >> <proto-language@...> wrote:
> > >
> > > >>> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Rick
> > McCallister"
> > > >>> <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:
> > >
> > > >>>> Nostratics has most definitely not been
> > proven. There
> > > >>>> is not even a uniform definition of what
> > composes
> > > >>>> Nostratic. There are no universally
> > acceptible
> > > >>>> proto-languages for most postulated members
> > of
> > > >>>> Nostratic. [...]
> > >
> > > >>> Nostratic has been irrefutably demonstrated.
> > >
> > > >> So you say, and yet refutation sits quoted
> > above this
> > > >> line, and can be found other places as well.
> > >
> > > > No disrespect to Rick but he is simply not
> > competent to
> > > > judge the issue.
> > >
> > > > The last time I made an informal survey, the
> > professional
> > > > members of the list semmed willing to entertain
> > the idea
> > > > of Nostratic but considered it unproven.
> > >
> > > Which hardly suggests that 'Nostratic has been
> > irrefutably
> > > demonstrated'.
> > >
> > > Brian
> >
> > ***
> >
> > What members say publicly and what they believe may
> > be two different things.
> >
> > Nostratic is still sort of the third rail in
> > linguistics.
> >
> > Would you not agree?
> >
> >
> > Patrick
>
> No. I have tenure and I can say whatever I want about
> Nostratic and i could before I had tenure. In fact,
> unless you're dealing with the likes of Terrence
> Kauffman or Lyle Campbell as colleagues you can pretty
> much say whatever you want about it anywhere --as long
> as you adhere to valid research practices and not
> voodoo conjuring.

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So you are saying no one cares what you think.

Patrick

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