Re: finally, a non-cretinous exposition of the Laryngeal theory

On Sep 2, 7:11 am, Harlan Messinger
<hmessinger.removet...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Harlan Messinger wrote:
analys...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Just that I don't want to be bothered with Westerners doing Margaret
Mead-type focussing on the exotic in India.  I would need solid
documentation before I would spend any time on assertions arrived at
after a few minutes of googling.

I suppose you think only penguins can usefully study Antarctic
geography. Oh, by the way, this last remark of yours about Westerners is
another instance of nationalistic perspective--you're somehow so special
that the languages in your country can't be usefully commented on by
linguists in the same way that they comment on every other language they
study.

Besides that, considering your feelings about Westerners doing "Margaret
Mead-type" study, it really is funny that you *dare* to have opinions
about English as you've expressed here from time to time. It's like John
McCain endlessly criticizing Barack Obama's lack of experience and then
tapping Sarah Palin as his running mate.

I think he is contrasting those superficial and untrustworthy
judgements made on the basis of a few minutes of googling, with his
own anti-linguistics constructed after _many hours_ of googling.

Ross Clark
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