Re: Frankish origins

At 5:25:39 AM on Sunday, September 20, 2009, Torsten wrote:

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

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

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

>>>> In search for a Sarmatian etymon for his invented
>>>> Iazigyan word **far-ang 'enemy, one of the others',

>>> actually, invented word hve only one asterisk in linguistics,

>> Trask, _The Dictionary of Historical and Comparative
>> Linguistics_, s.v. <asterisk>:

>> Some linguists prefer to use a double asterisk for
>> certain purposes: to indicate that a proposed form has
>> been reconstructed on the basis of other forms that are
>> themselves reconstructed, to mark a suggested
>> reconstruction as doubtful, or to distinguish a form as
>> actually impossible rather than as merely non-existent
>> or unrecorded.

> I know.

So you were sniping just to snipe. I rather thought so.

[...]

>>> Now who would try to unite all this under the hat of
>>> 'Germanic'? Not me, for sure.

>> 'Who would try to unite all this?' seems a more
>> reasonable question.

> The really reasonable question is: 'If have nothing to
> contribute in linguistics, why open your mouth at all?'

Trying to build a functioning machine from mismatched parts
scavenged from local junkyards is a linguistic contribution?

Brian