Re: Armenian, Sumerian, Burushaski, and Turkic languages

In article <1182257523.938408.76780@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Darkstar <darkstar100@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Jun 19, 4:12 am, Nathan Sanders <nsand...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <1182210517.034058.145...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,

Darkstar <darkstar...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

He's just a liar at best

Provide proof or retract your slander. What have I lied about?

No one can "prove" any of that.

If you can't prove that someone is a liar when called to do so, you
shouldn't go around saying they are one! It's not very gentlemanly.

Again, you're just trying to lie there's some kind of
formalistic proof in reference to real world phenomena.

Existence proofs are certainly real enough. If I find a language with
OVS word order, and I have proven that such a language is possible.

The only proof is common sense.

Common sense is what perpetuates urban legends about language (Eskimo
words for snow, for example). It is not to be trusted, and anyone
with minimal training in linguistics knows this.

In fact, common sense isn't to be trusted in most scientific fields,
either. It was responsible for various incorrect beliefs, like the
sun revolving around the earth or heavier objects falling faster than
lighter objects.

If you hadn't been perpetually using such words as
"horse***" and "lie",

Do not lie about my words. I certainly have not been using those
words "perpetually". Franz and you got dozens of perfectly ordinary
replies from me and from others. The harsher language only came after
we faced your stubborn refusal to do the necessary background reading,
and your blatant lies about the contents of the reading you didn't do.

you could have kept at least some of your
alleged reputation as an expert.

Learn what "alleged" means. My credentials are a matter of public
record, which is quite different from being alleged.

Nathan

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