Re: Stacking up on standard works

At 8:23:24 AM on Friday, April 6, 2012, Tavi wrote:

> --- 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.

Oh? He supports a Vasco-Caucasian taxon and some
substantial fraction of your word equations? (I won't call
them etymologies: they don't reach that level.)

>>> 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.

I'm not talking about that, and in any case you have not
responded in any meaningful way to those requests. I'm
talking about the vast majority of your posts to Cybalist,
in which you confidently -- nay, arrogantly -- proclaim the
gospel according to Tavi. And yes, I certainly can blame
you 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.

If you want a discussion, offer something of substance to
discuss.