Re: Scandinavia and the Germanic tribes such as Goths, Vandals, Angl

From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 61435
Date: 2008-11-06

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>
>
> This, on the other hand, is complete nonsense. Arbitrarily
> assigning the two names to a common source without any
> linguistic evidence in favor of that assignment in fact
> multiplies your assumptions and makes your theory *less*
> economical. So does rejecting a perfectly reasonable
> etymology for one of the words.
> > This is yet another illustration of the difficulty noted
> below:
> You don't understand science or the evaluation of
>>> evidence.
>
> That was an inference from your posts, not an instance of
> name-calling. If you don't want to see such negative
> inferences, improve your performance.
>
> Brian
>
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funny
but this reminds me of recent posts
multiplying phonemes in modern French...

Arnaud