Re: Stacking up on standard works

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

>
> I simply refuse to pretend that you're doing serious linguistics.
>

Have you read Skinner? Have you heard about Pavlov's dogs?

Your attitude is the result of academic training, which conditions you
to refuse my discourse.

> > I'm still expecting for you to refute anything I said.
>
> You have yet to say anything that both requires refutation;
> you merely offer your arrogant opinions. You have never,
> that I can recall, offered a closely reasoned argument to
> support one of these opinions.
>

Sorry, but this tactics doesn't work. I've called your game.

> You rely on highly questionable sources (e.g., Starostin), and your
> 'methodology' appears to be little better than Greenbergian,
> if that.
>

Not at all. What Greenberg and Ruhlen did were mass-comparison,
something quite different from LONG-RANGE comparison, based on the same
comparative method which originated in IE studies.

[snip more academic pedantry]