Re: Armenian, Sumerian, Burushaski, and Turkic languages

In article <1182210517.034058.145560@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Darkstar <darkstar100@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

he didn't even
realize Armenian can be related to two families at the same time.

It can be, but only in a totally trivial and mind-numbingly
uninteresting way, using an ambiguous meaning of "family" that counts
both PIE and Romance as "families", thus allowing a family to also be
a descendent of another family. So Spanish is related to both Romance
and PIE (as well as such groupings as Ibero-Romance and Western
Romance).

However, I assume you were actually intending to make some
non-trivial, interesting claim. If so, your claim is false.

So, are you being boring or wrong?

He's just a liar at best

Provide proof or retract your slander. What have I lied about? I
need to see not only a citation of my supposed lie, but also a
citation showing that my claim was in fact a lie. You'll have to
forgive me if I don't just take your word for it; you've hardly proven
yourself a reliable reference on matters of linguistics.

(he said that himself many times by repeatedly
accusing other people of lying, which any shrink can identify as
"projection" of his own thoughts about himself).

If your knowledge of psychiatry is anything like your "knowledge" of
linguistics, then I think we can all be assured that your diagnosis is
absolutely wrong.

And I got work to do.

Will you be presenting at the IHCL next month? Or can we look forward
to an article of yours in _Diachronica_? Or perhaps there's a
research seminar where you'll be presenting some preliminary results?
Do let us know, so we can all bask in the glory of your "work"!

Nathan

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Nathan Sanders
Linguistics Program
Williams College
http://wso.williams.edu/~nsanders/
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