Re: s-stems in Slavic and Germanic

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:

>
> At 9:43:21 PM on Thursday, February 19, 2009, tgpedersen
> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > Nah, I was just over-reacting because I felt you were
> > deflecting the point I was trying to make: that's a real
> > knife, and that's real aggression under the cover of
> > Narrenfreiheit.
>
> You have no way to know.

No, it's a working hypothesis. So far it works.

> > The point was that this type of strange reactions is the
> > last thing that disappears after the language, the culture
> > and the last substrate loans have gone: you see that and
> > you know something old ethnic is going on under the
> > surface.
>
> Crackpottery, pure and simple.
>

And when I heard you were Norwegian, I thought: Of course! That
explains why he has to state his god-given superiority over me all the
time, regardless of the question and state of evidence.

Torsten