Re: Stacking up on standard works

From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 69250
Date: 2012-04-05

At 5:18:51 AM on Thursday, April 5, 2012, Tavi wrote:

> IMHO the "most recent common ancestor of the IE languages"
> was actually spoken in a remote past, [...]

I know; you've said this repeatedly. You've also offered no
support for your belief. Unsupported assertions assertions
of relationships with questionable hypertaxa, tooting your
own horn, and disparaging 'academic' linguists don't qualify
as support.

> On the contrary, you're speaking about of one of my
> *unfinished* research projects (off-topic for this list),

If it's unfinished, you've no business presenting what can
only be very tentative conclusions as if they were fact.
And I notice that the only time you worry about the fact
that this is off-topic is when you're asked to provide real
support for it; otherwise you're more than willing to preach
the gospel according to Tavi.

> while you've apparently ignored some of my last
> contributions:

> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/69232
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/69235

Of course I've ignored these 'contributions': they're just
more unsupported assertions.