Re: Armenian, Sumerian, Burushaski, and Turkic languages

On Jun 14, 5:15 pm, Nathan Sanders <nsand...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I don't mind (informed) opposition at all. My students are encouraged
to challenge and question what they are told, basing their opposition
on an understanding of the facts (obtained through reading relevant
work), logical reasoning, and scientific rigor.

Okay, let us apply scientific rigor. You said nobody denies
the possibility of a language that consisted of short words
only. So there is a possibility that recent words are derivates
of meaningful and often figurative compounds, and you have
to mutliply the p value for the validity of the comparative
method as practized today by the p value for the assumtion
that recent words - for example aqua, folk, people, etc. -
are NO compounds.

Franz displays none of these traits. Instead, what little research he
does is incomplete, lazy, and often completely wrong, consisting
primarily of half-remembered radio broadcasts performed by linguistic
laymen. He uses no logical or scientific argumentation, but rather
simply insists on absurd claims and then pursues only those
consequences that interest him, ignoring anything that contradicts
reality.

The main mistake in the sciences and humanities is that ideas
and hypotheses are confounded with facts, truth, and reality.
You do as if the PIE reconstructions were for real while they
are hypotheses only, and hypotheses for which there is no
evidence. You can't prove that the proto--form of aqua given
as *akwa could not have been AC CA, which would have
been a most meaningful compound, as I explained in
a previous message. The possibility of compounds does
exist, you can't make it go away by means of invectives,
favorite ersatz arguments of edus. And, by the way,
in a reply to someone else (was it Heidi?) you said
I am certainly not lazy, now you call me lazy. What
do you want to say, really? that you don't like being
challenged? and that you say just anything, one and
the contrary, in order to ward me off and drive me away?
Yes, it must be this. And, by the way, sci.lang is not
your class, you are not my teacher. Luckily I had very
good teachers with an open mind, and well versed in
their respective discipline, moreover they knew that
hypotheses and facts are entirely different things.

Franz Gnaedinger


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