Re: Stacking up on standard works

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

>
> > I regard Vasco-Caucasian as a *real* macro-family or phylum.
>
> Which doesn't make it any less imaginary. I would say "controversial"

if

> I saw any *acceptable* evidence for it, no matter how weak.
>

Then you'll have to read what I write here and on my list and blog.

> > I'm always open to *constructive* criticisms.
>
> That would require a minimum of shared ground. Few archaeologists

bother

> to "constructively" criticise von Däniken or Cremo, and most

biologists

> prefer not to discuss Intelligent Design, since they know in advance

the

> discussion would be futile.
>

AFAIK this is a forum on comparative linguistics, not biology or UFOs.
And "comparative" means there're some reliable means to tell whether a
word A in language X is related to a word B in language Y.