Re: One, first, head, finger

I can give you N more constructions. What does it mean? It will never convince a scientist.
It is only good enough for you. That is real propaganda. Nobody has to be flimflammed
in math courses. It starts with fundamentals and its success can be seen all over the
world.

But then again, this is a linguistics list, especially a historical linguistics list, and traditionally
this branch has had the worst rascals and racists. It looks like we are going to have to
relive that era again.

Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:

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From: "H.M. Hubey" <hubeyh@...>
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Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2003 7:39 PM
Subject: Re: [Nostratica] One, first, head, finger


> I guess I have to explain it differently. The heuristic is only a  heuristic. The gold standard of science is math.

You keep rephrasing the same propaganda. Don't advertise the merits of the method. Show me some concrete results it has yielded. The standard comparative method has given us numerous protolanguage reconstructions; it has been used to identify scores of language families (not just IE, for your information). What has any alterno method produced so far?

Piotr


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