From: tgpedersen
Message: 60896
Date: 2008-10-15
>No one could accuse you of that.
> At 4:11:06 PM on Tuesday, October 14, 2008, Arnaud Fournet
> wrote:
>
> > From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
>
> [...]
>
> >>> Venneman's work is highly suspect of being nothing but
> >>> fanciful.
>
> >> That's the word in the community, mostly by people who
> >> haven't read him.
>
> They don't matter; what does matter is that those who have
> read him are also extremely skeptical.
>
> >> You should check for yourself.
>
> Start with the Baldi/Page review in Lingua 116(2006),
> 2183-2220. They are on the whole quite generous, but the
> review strikes me as damning with faint praise, and it's
> pretty clear that Vennemann has a bee in his bonnet capable
> of making him see problems where none exist.
> There may be some worthwhile nuggets in EV-ES, but taken as a wholeEhm - by your own definition, do you matter?
> it seems to be moving towards crackpot territory.