Re: Everett refuted!!

On Aug 25, 7:21 am, Franz Gnaedinger <f...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Aug 24, 7:52 am, Franz Gnaedinger <f...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Aug 21, 7:18 am, Franz Gnaedinger <f...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Aug 20, 2:13 pm, Franz Gnaedinger <f...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Aug 20, 7:23 am, Franz Gnaedinger <f...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Aug 19, 9:14 pm, Christopher Culver
<crcul...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

As I've mentioned before, it should be pretty obvious that Franz is
mentally ill. Those of us who have had a mentally ill friend or loved
one recognize that clearly. Consequently, I really do wonder why you
still bother. In recent days your posts to try to refute him are nearly as
long as his ravings. I hate to see you wasting such effort.

You attended two universities in the USA and then
another one in Finland, so you are one of those
eternal students. Last time you interfered with me
you had written over 800 (eight hundred) reviews,
many of them on linguistic books. But never never
never did you refute any of my hypotheses on
the scientific level, you always dropped verdicts
from the meta-level. Makes you another one of
those impotent minds. You are not able to disprove
any of my reconstructions, and certainly you are not
able to disprove my test case, Magdalenian BIR as
origin of all the six different *bher- words, and bear
as the furry one, nor are you able to provide new
and better evidence for *bher- and *bher- and *bher-
and *bher- and *bher- and *bher-, and for bear as
the brown one. Every linguist in here seems ashamed
of the six identical *bher- words of different meanings,
and of the lame etyomology of bear as the brown one.
Even PIE hardliner Trond Engen. I repeat: you, Christopher
Culver, have not been able to disprove any of my linguistic
reconstructions, and you don't even try, you always drop
verdicts from above, discrediting yourself right from the
start.

Dismissing people who propose new ideas as insane
is one of the oldest tricks. Christopher Culver is playing
by that foul trick since years, so I did a quick research
on him. Meanwhile he wrote 1565 Amazon reviews and
counting. He likes writing reviews, he can place himself
above everybody else, he can judge from above,
he can drop verdicts, and he has nothing else to do
than compare someone's publications or ideas against
his internalized textbook wisdom - if there is a deviation,
down goes the thumb. He joined the Orthodox Church
and has a liking for Old Church Slavonic, seems he favors
a patriarchal and dogmatic frame of mind. He is interested
in the PIE bridge between Latin and Ancient Greek, so he
should be able to provide arguments instead of dropping
verdicts. He should be able to provide arguments in
favor of PIE *bher- and *bher- and *bher- and *bher-
and *bher- and *bher-, and of the PIE etymology of bear
as the brown one. I say that PIE collapses in the case
of the six identical *bher- words that have different
meanings, because the time horizon of PIE is to narrow,
only about 6,000 years instead of 18,000 years. On the
older level the six PIE words *bher- come together in
BIR, both the words and their meanings. I can derive
all of them from BIR, while the peculiar meaning of BIR
being fur, especially the fur on which a newborn was laid,
is imposed by the permutation group. BIR has a plethora
of derivatives, among them English bear, and this bear
means fur, ancient Greek byros. I prepared a Magdalenian
test case one year ago, it can be found in a destillated
form at the begin of my thread "Magdalenian experiment
(continuation)" and on my web page
www.seshat.ch/home/lascaux2.htm
A test case has the function of making it simple.
Instead of absorbing an entire hypothesis or theory
one can just look at one single case, here the etymology
of one single word, English bear, according to PIE
'the brown one', according to Magdalenian 'the furry one'.
Now I wish to see Christopher Culver absolve this test.
One who wrote 1565 Amazon reviews, many on linguistic
publications, one who attended three universities, and
one who is interested in PIE and has studied this topic,
must be able to respond to my test. He may now show
whether he is worth his salt or not.

Christopher Culver ain't worth his salt. He can't
talk science. He can't discuss by means of scientific
arguments. All he can is drop verdicts from above.
Christopher Culver will climb a power position in
some university and shatter the hopes of young
people with ideas, new and fresh and daring ideas
beyond the iron curtain drawn by textbooks.

My heart goes out to the American neurobiologist
who discovered the plasticity of the brain in the early
1970s and was mobbed out of his institute and career
by the Christopher Culvers of his time. Speaking of
neural plasticity was sheer madness by then. And is
all the rage now.

Future victims of Christopher Culver may consider
the advice given by Richard P. Feynman in a letter
from November 30, 1965: "... study hard what interests
you most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and
original manner possible."

Everybody can become a scientist nowadays by joining
a scientific group on the Usenet. It only takes a couple
of minutes, and you have to observe just one single rule,
the always always always and never never never rule:
always always always argue on meta-levels, never never
never on the scientific level. On the meta-levels you are
safe, while scientific arguments are slippery. Strictly avoid
being dragged on the scientific level. Spout ad hominems
when you are in danger of being forced to answer on the
scientific level, ad hominems being the best and most
powerfullest of all arguments.

My Magdalenian experiment started in early 2005 whith
my reconstruction of the amazing lunisolar calendar of
Lascaux. I needed a suiting language, found none in
literature, and went for one myself. Using my four
Magdalenian laws I mined plenty of words, actually
word groups. And then, using my word fields, I interpreted
the Brunel chamber of Chauvet (with the help of one Holly),
the rotunda and axial gallery of Lascaux, Altamira, single
ideograms in many more caves, the Göbekli Tepe, and
finally shed some light on the Indus Valley. I ponder the
deep layers of the Eurasian verbal morphospace and
read the Ice Age mind. Nobody can disprove my lunisolar
calendars (plural), my many and bold reconstructions,
my etymological compounds, and my interpretations,
and go for my test case of bear as the furry one versus
bear as the brown one. My work is apparently so good
that nobody in sci.lang can disprove and falsify any part
of it, and nobody even tries to go for my Magdalenian
test. My approach to early language, relying on the one
by Richard Fester but going way beyond, is most fertile,
which allows and encourages me to go on, well into
the fifth year of my Magdalenian experiment now.

I forgot to mention my reconstruction of the Paleolithic
sky, another piece of work I am proud of, vault in my
cathedral of the Ice Age mind. I am not just reconstructing
words, I do more (see also my etymology of English lodge
that I will publish this morning in the thread started by
Harlan Messinger). Michael Janda climbs down the PIE
latter, I climb up the ladder of Aurignacian and Gravettian
and Magdalenian, and we are meeting somewhere in
midair, measuring out the space of early religion and
mythology, and, last but not least, early philosophy that
went into language itself.
.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Everett refuted!!
    ... the scientific level, you always dropped verdicts ... and of the lame etyomology of bear as the brown one. ... Even PIE hardliner Trond Engen. ... I prepared a Magdalenian ...
    (sci.lang)
  • Re: Everett refuted!!
    ... the scientific level, you always dropped verdicts ... and of the lame etyomology of bear as the brown one. ... Even PIE hardliner Trond Engen. ... I prepared a Magdalenian ...
    (sci.lang)
  • Re: Everett refuted!!
    ... the scientific level, you always dropped verdicts ... and of the lame etyomology of bear as the brown one. ... Even PIE hardliner Trond Engen. ... I prepared a Magdalenian ...
    (sci.lang)
  • Re: Everett refuted!!
    ... the scientific level, you always dropped verdicts ... and of the lame etyomology of bear as the brown one. ... Even PIE hardliner Trond Engen. ... Now I wish to see Christopher Culver absolve this test. ...
    (sci.lang)
  • Re: Magdalenian experiment (continuation)
    ... Magdalenian BIR and English bear, ... like for example English bear. ... BIR --- fur, ... Die FDP verwandelte ...
    (sci.lang)