Re: Stacking up on standard works

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <bm.brian@...> 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.
>

This is why I've recommended you read Villar's book, because hes an
academical guy and has arrived to a similar conclusion than myself.

> > 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.
>

Well, I was *repeteadly* asked to do so in despite of my initial
negative. You can't blame for that.

> > 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.
>

I see you aren't interested at all on discussing anything, so I'd
suggest we terminate this conversation.