Re: Asian Migration to Scandinavia

On 2008-10-21 18:32, mkelkar2003 wrote:

> Your advise must first apply to msg# 61023 mutadis muntandis which
> reads in part, and to which I was responding to:
>
> "Of course, Ivanov must defend his (and Gamkrelidze's) hypothesis of a
> PIE homeland in Armenia, a corollary of which is that Proto-Iranian
> was spoken southeast of the Caucasus at a very early date;
> "

The _worst_ thing about Gamkrelidze and Ivanov is that they have a
dominant "homeland agenda". In effect, they wear blinkers.

> Also please see Charpethein Atharvan 1930.pdf pp. 234-235 and Frye
> Atharvan 1948.pdf p. 231. Many other scholars have linked atar and
> atharvan. So if the matter was decided on popular vote they would
> win.

So what? All traditional opinions are initially more popular than novel
proposals. New insights take time to have impact -- how else? Pinault
published his ideas in 2003. By what miracle could people back in the
nineteen-thirties and forties have heard about them? How do you know
they would not have agreed with Pinault if they had heard his
argumentation? It's like saying that quarks can't exist because Bohr and
Heisenberg never mentioned them.

Piotr