Re: Stacking up on standard works

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...>
wrote:

>
> > > 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.)
>
> One can only try. Villar, as I remember, is the one of the greats in

Hispano-Celtic and also a champion of Basque being from Aquitania,
rather than the Basque country. Trask seemed to agree with him, pointing
out that most Basque Country hydronyms are Celtic. So Villar is far from
a zero in Basque studies.

>

AFAIK, Villar isn't a Vascologist. This is why he has zero knowledge on
Basque. But this *fact* doesn't obscure his greats merits on the
research of substrate IE languages.

Some of you guys have a vice to take what I say out of its context.