Re: Venom-spitting from a safe distance - Cybalist cave!

Dušan Vukotić wrote:
On Feb 27, 11:03 pm, Harlan Messinger
<hmessinger.removet...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

If someone said to you, "I know Dušan isn't your real name because you
don't look like somebody who'd be named Dušan", and you know perfectly
well that your name is Dušan because your parents raised you with that
name and you've seen it on your birth certificate, would you take him
seriously?

Tingo and lingo are two different words in Latin and they obviously
did not come from the same basis. I presumed that 'dingua' came out of
'tingo' (tingere) as well as 'lingua' appeared from 'lingo' (lingere).
I do not understand why do you find such a question inappropriate or
illegal?

Because the actual relationships are directly observable from the history of written material available in all the successive stages of Latin, and to accept your presumption would require one to assign greater weight to your impressions based on superficial word similarities than to direct evidence.

Since the astronauts have already brought back material from the moon that proves conclusively that it's made of rock, a person who claims that it's made of cheese and that this must be so because the moon looks like a wheel of cheese is not entitled to be taken seriously.

Maybe you would be able to prove that 'tingo' and 'dingua' were
umrelated?

I don't know about tingo. My comments were about "lingua" coming from "dingua".
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