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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:
>
> At 4:44:23 PM on Saturday, February 21, 2009, tgpedersen
> wrote:
>
> > But please say when, if it becomes too much, I wouldn't
> > want you to lose your mind.
>
> <shrug>
>
> It's no real skin off my nose if you choose to display your
> crackpot ideas in public,
Poor you. Don't you have a bandaid somewhere?
> though I doubt that I'm the only one who's rather tired of them.
I have such doubts all the time. You, on the other hand seems
convinced that the lame metaphors you offer in lieu of refutation is
the kind of fare cybalist can't exist without.
> I just wish that once in a while you'd actually do some linguistics.
I'll take that as a back-handed compliment. Thank you.
Problem is, what interests me is linguistic archaeology. What came
before? And if one tribe did a Katyn on the other and their women
decided to make the best of the situation, and brought up their kids
speaking a broken version of whatever, then that's what happened;
dealing with the truth is always better than dealing with some
imagined thing, no matter what it means to the legitimacy of some
descendant culture. Therefore, I will assume creolization whenever I
assume invasion. I can't see how an honest person can do anything else.
Why is the Anglosaxon mind such a brittle thing?
Torsten