Re: Origin of *h2arh3-trom 'plough'

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

>
> No. I'm pointing out that your quasi-religious faith that
> 'these Germanic-Afrasian (especially Semitic) isoglosses
> must reflect the languages spoken in Central Europe
> Neolithic' is just that: an article of faith. Linguistic
> conclusions require linguistic support.
>
> > I'm sure you're acquainted with Bomhard's and Vennemann's
> > work (I hope you won't call them "Pyramidiots" or other
> > silly word.), are you? This is where I inferred my
> > conclusion.
>
> No, since they don't (so far as I know) engage in that
> particular form of crackpottery. I'm not in a position to
> judge Bomhard's work. Venneman's ideas are interesting, but
> his arguments are unpersuasive, to say the least; I note
> that even the most sympathetic reviewers of the EV-ES
> collection were skeptical of a lot of the argumentation.
>

Although I've used their material in my own work, I should make clear my own position is quite different from the one of these authors. To quote example, I've rejected Vennemann's proposal about *abol- 'apple' as inappropriate and so I've made my own.

Unfortunately, you don't appear to be interesting in a genuine scientific debate but in *mocking* me.