Re: Ban all non academic discussions

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>
> On 2008-04-20 13:44, kishore patnaik wrote:
>
> > You are a linguist. How can you judge the dating aspect as crank
> > when the dating is done by scientists of yesteryears?
>
> I _can_ question the reasoning that leads to such datings. It has
> precious little to do with science, whether social or natural, but
> everything to do with arbitrary interpretation and wishful thinking.
>



> Piotr
>

There is nothing particulary scientific about linguistic methods of
dating either. See the paper below:

McMahon, A. and McMahon, R. (2006) Why Lingustics Don't Do Dates:
Evidence from Indo-European and Australian Languages. In Peter Forster
and Colin Renfrew, editors, Phylogenetic Methods and the Prehistory of
Languages, pages 153--.

http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~amag/langev/paper/mcMahon06phylogeneticMethods.html

M. Kelkar