Re: Polynesian and South American place names

From: Yuri Kuchinsky (yuku_at_trends.ca)
Date: 09/01/04 

Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 16:29:35 -0400

benlizross wrote:
>
> Yuri Kuchinsky wrote:
> >
> > benlizross wrote:
> > >
> > > Yuri Kuchinsky wrote:
> >
> > > > ... As I mentioned already, my intention was
> > > > merely to lend a helping hand to the linguists, who seem to
> > > > be hopelessly isolated from reality in the ivory towers of
> > > > their own making.
> > >
> > > Thanks, but I don't imagine a linguist who wanted to make a serious case
> > > for this would get much help from random heaps of names thrown together
> > > by clueless amateurs.
> >
> > Since they are all place names, their similarity may seem a
> > bit more than random.
>
> To a clueless amateur, perhaps.

To a clueless amateur for sure. But also perhaps to an
interested professional scholar, like Robert Langdon.

> > Ritualistic denigration of "clueless amateurs" is noted.
>
> I note, in turn, that despite tossing around words like "random",
> "probability", "sample" and suchlike, neither you nor Deitiker has done
> anything even faintly resembling a statistical control on these place
> names.

You're the only one who's been taking Deitiker the Troll
seriously, and wasting plenty of time on him... Perhaps
you're clueless?

...

> > > No, Yuri, people who think they can turn worthless linguistic material
> > > into something meaningful by invoking some vague grand maritime past are
> > > living in a fantasy world
> > >
> > > Ross Clark
> >
> > Maybe worthless, maybe not... I don't think you're qualified
> > to pose as an objective arbiter here, given your track
> > record.
>
> Ah, the mystical "objectivity"again.
> My point is that if you want to show that there is some significance to
> these place names, this is not the way to go about it.

Beg to disagree. IMO citing supporting archaeological
evidence, as I've been doing, is a fine way to show that
there may be some significance to these place names.

> I tried to
> explain a few days ago one way in which a meaningful argument could be
> based on place names. No interest from you. This is where the word
> "clueless" springs to one's mind.
>
> Ross Clark

Yes, there are also some other ways to show that there may
be some significance to these place names. But the way
you've suggested demands too much work. So I've done the
same thing in another way -- that happens to be easier.

Yuri.

Yuri Kuchinsky -=O=- http://www.trends.ca/~yuku

The goal proposed by Cynic philosophy is apathy, which is
equivalent to becoming God -=O=- Julian

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