Re: PIE vestuary

From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 69433
Date: 2012-04-26

At 4:40:34 PM on Thursday, April 26, 2012, Tavi wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "dgkilday57"
> <dgkilday57@...> wrote:

[...]

>>>> Why create confusion by using an established term in an
>>>> idiosyncratic way?

>>> More than "using" it, I'm *explaining* it. That is, I
>>> see as a substrate adstrate what other people think it's
>>> a genetic relationship.

>> But your parastrate is still not identical to other
>> people's Italo-Celtic. You could simply call it Italic
>> parastrate.

> Then "Italo-Celtic" is only an illusion caused by an Italic
> substrate/adstrate in Celtic.

This is obviously utterly irrelevant. The fact remains that
the term has a recognized meaning, and you only cause
confusion by arrogantly using it to mean something else with
no regard for established usage.