Re: Stacking up on standard works

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

>
> > I don't think substrate items and data from language families other

than

> > IE are "imaginary".
>
> Some of those alleged families are imaginary in the first place.
>

I regard Vasco-Caucasian as a *real* macro-family or phylum.

> I am familiar with a lot of comparative work on families other than

IE. The

> affiliation of the languages you compare does not matter. What matters
> is the methodological standards of your comparison.
>

I'm always open to *constructive* criticisms.