Re: Stacking up on standard works

Tavi:

> Rick McCallister:
>
>> Brian M. Scott:
>>
>>> No, I shouldn't: I'm not familiar with his work, so I don't
>>> know whether it does the sort of thing that I was
>>> describing.
>>
>> You SHOULD read Villar. Villar is mainstream and is one of the top
>> five or so people in paleo-Iberian languages, along with with
>> Untermann, Prosper, Adrados et al. Trask
>> respected Villar
>
> Unfortunately, Villar is a zero on Basque and Iberian, although this
> is comparatively minor with regard to this discoverings.
>
>> Don't assume that Tavi is always wrong.

And just as he was offered a tiny foothold on common ground, Tavi was
there with his shovel. (This exchange may not be informative, but it's
funny in perverse sort of way.)

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Trond Engen