Re: RE : [tied] Re: North of the Somme

At 7:15:23 PM on Saturday, August 15, 2009, tgpedersen
wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "bmscotttg" <BMScott@...>
> wrote:

>> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen"
>> <tgpedersen@> wrote:

[...]

>>> But the languages around them swarm with lookalikes
>>> which must be ultimately related, [...]

>> An article of faith, apparently.

> ??

I was referring to your methodological approach in general.
You routinely proceed on the basis that words that look
vaguely similar and have, at least in your mind, vaguely
similar meanings 'must be ultimately related'. (You very
rarely present anything resembling an actual argument,
however. Lengthy quotations from etymological dictionaries
are not in themselves an argument.)

[...]

Brian