Re: The Origins of Zürich...

Dušan Vukotic wrote:
Peter T. Daniels wrote:

Heidi Graw wrote:
"Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Peter wrote:
You hang on to the nonsense.
And you don't? You don't have fiction sitting on your library shelf at
home?
The people who try to educate you about Germanic philology are not
writing fiction. They are providing well-attested facts (in this case,
the names of Zurich) and showing how those few facts fit into an
immense web of facts about the history of the Germanic languages that
have been gathered and organized over the past two centuries, so that
the true history of the Germanic languages is very well known -- one of
the handful of very well known language family histories.

I hang onto nonsense because it's fun and entertaining.
Germanic philologists greatly enjoy sorting out the actual facts and
the rock-solid explanations that have emerged over those two centuries.
There is no nonsense about it.

A really creative Germanic philologist, J. R. R. Tolkien, showed that
it's very profitably possible to be "fun and entertaining" without
transgressing _any_ of the facts or principles involved.

I also
collect sensible things. I'm quite competent at distinguishing between the
real and the imagined. The information I collect I sort out accordingly. I
know how to catagorize. I've got quite the complicated filing system at
home. ;-)
If you actually _are_ competent at distinguishing the real and the
imagined, why do you persist on repeating the imagined in the face of
the real that is provided to you here?

How do you expect the people, who said that the English 'bake' and
Serbian 'peci' (bakery - pekara; baker - pekar) are not related, to
be able to teach anyone?

That's easy. The people who acquire knowledge systematically and accumulate a conclusive body of evidence to back it up are the ones to be trusted, not the ones who are adamantly convinced of their own conclusions based only on the few superficial resemblances they find because they for some reason they think knowledge is best obtained by ignoring the advanced work that others have already done and starting from scratch with few resources.

I think, such "scientists" must first seat
down, warm up the chair for a few years and afterwards come here for a
serious evaluation of their knowledge.

That *is* what they do. You're the one who refuses to engage in any evaluation beyond your own flimsy impressions.

DV

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