Re: Stacking up on standard works

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>
> I haven't seen anything remotely resembling the application of the
> comparative method (as I know it) in your comparisons. What you do

show

> us is spurious reconstructions based on imaginary evidence and
> unwarranted assumptions, plus a lot of handvawing. This kind of stuff
> can't be "refuted" by a specialist for the simple reason that it does
> not belong to the real world. But then I have studied linguistics, so

I

> suppose my academic training clouds my judgement.
>

I don't think substrate items and data from language families other than
IE are "imaginary".