Re: Scientist's etymology vs. scientific etymology

At 11:56:05 AM on Saturday, June 7, 2008, tgpedersen wrote:

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>> Vennemann's rambling rhetoric is about as convincing as a
>> three- dollar bill. In decades of riding his
>> Euro-Vasconic hobbyhorse, he has yet to establish
>> anything usable. A Kling-Klang similarity between
>> 'cheese' and the Basque for 'salt' is etymologically
>> worthless.

> Unless backed up by specific criticism of Vennemanns
> proposal for the connection between 'cheese' and the
> Basque for 'salt' the above ad hominem filled paragraph is
> linguistically worthless.

There isn't an ad hominem in it: it's merely the expression
of a negative judgement of the work, not an attack on the
man himself.

Brian