Re: Stacking up on standard works

At 6:38:16 PM on Monday, April 16, 2012, stlatos wrote:

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

>> No one ever said Trask was infallible, least of all him.

> Then why'd you say: He was a scholar who never made a
> pronouncement that he couldn't back up 100%.

> I guess there's a distinction between being infallible and
> never saying anything w/o evidence,

You guess? It's obvious.

> but that's what I tried to show was wrong.

And you failed. 'Without evidence acceptable to Sean
Whalen' is most definitely not the same as 'without
evidence'.

[...]

> No one has ever done really good work on Proto-Basque, or
> almost any proto-language, but me.

Right. Not even the three Napoleons and two Einsteins in
the ward down the hall from you.