Re: Stacking up on standard works

Tavi:.

A bunch of snippets about this and that doesn't amount to anything coherent. If you're going to reinvent the wheel, you have to reinvent the whole thing, assemble it, test it, make it cost worthy and then market it.

Maybe you need the Spanish equivalent of an NEH award, so you can go to libraries and devise something coherent and then after 3 years of monastic work, reveal your COMPLETED findings.

If you don't want to do that level of stakhanovite work, then re-consider.

Look at Bomhard, he takes the conzertmeister route. He trusts the authority of world famous linguists and lets them do a lot of the heavy lifting. He then picks up his baton and choreographs a Nostratic symphony by incorporating what he considers as complementary and coherent relationships. Now, he has to rely on the often glacial and very uneven pace of historical linguistics in various families and has to rewrite and rethink sections when theories are overturned, but it's a wise place to be if you're dealing with such vast fields of information.

From: Brian M. Scott <bm.brian@...>
To: Tavi <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 5, 2012 5:47 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Stacking up on standard works

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.