Re: proof that most etymologies are only fairy-tales

On Aug 13, 7:31 am, Harlan Messinger
<hmessinger.removet...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Franz Gnaedinger wrote:
On Aug 12, 11:45 pm, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
No.

Any scientific law comes first of all from _observation_.

Einstein, as a boy or a teenager, imagined
himself riding on a ray of light, and this was
the origin of relativity theory - pure imagination
turning into most real physics,

You're confusing the inspiration with the substance. Nobody believes
relativity theory to be true because Einstein said, "Hey, listen to this
fantasy I had."

Bringing science into hist ling is absurd. In this field, everything
essentialy boils down to what theory sits more comfortably with you.

I personally would bet on Franz's methods since he derives the
evolution of words from culture/anthropology etc. and doesn't merely
play a purely formal game with no objective rules - only sieve-like,
agreed-upon-by-consensus fantasies masquerading as "laws".




but still considered
Jewish nonsense by some people.

???

.

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