Dear Glen:

Play your childish games with someone else.

Pat

PATRICK C. RYAN | PROTO-LANGUAGE@... (501) 227-9947 * 9115 W. 34th St. Little Rock, AR 72204-4441 USA WEBPAGES: PROTO-LANGUAGE: http://www.geocities.com/proto-language/ and PROTO-RELIGION: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/2803/proto-religion/indexR.html "Veit ec at ec hecc, vindgá meiði a netr allar nío, geiri vndaþr . . . a þeim meiþi, er mangi veit, hvers hann af rótom renn." (Hávamál 138)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...>
To: <nostratic@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2001 2:02 AM
Subject: [nostratic] Nostratic and Proto-Language... Reductio ad adsurdum


>
> Pat's emotions rear their ugly head again:
> >Keep repeating that until you are blue in the face, and it will not change
> >the fact that I have made up NO cognates. The cognates are the result of
> >comparative methodology.
>
> Yes, it is quite true that the facts do not change despite the hue
> of your face. Here is a logical arguement completely void of ad
> hominems altogether...
>
> I say that *not* all of Pat's cognates are the result of
> proper comparative methodology.
>
> 1) We will assume however that all of Pat's cognates *are* the
> result of proper comparative methodology.
>
> 2) Sumerian **ginna is NOT the result of comparative
> methodology. (That is, there are no attestations in any
> Sumerian dialects to actually *compare* in order to
> warrant this form. It is rather the result of _speculation_,
> an example of improper comparative methodology.)
>
> 3) Thus, at least one of Pat's cognates is *NOT* the result of
> proper comparative methodology.
>
> So, in conclusion, Pat's statement is false and my view is
> logically valid, via proof by contradiction.
>
> Further, as this above proof shows, Pat is counterlogical at
> least occasionally (if not in every instance).
>
> - gLeN
>
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