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in reply to a message by Getb
"a highly unlikely form for it to take"
that is just YOUR opinion;
Yes, but it is opinion made on the basis of solid knowledge of English to Slavic transliteration.
"the 'no' in 'nobyl' is part of the element 'cherno', so the second element is 'byl' not 'nobyl'"
I recognized that the second element was indeed "byl" (grass) and therefore admited my mistake (just due to probabilities),
Your posts are too unclear to assume that the querying poster would catch that detail. It had to be clarified.
but there are cases that when a suffix and a preffix are joined 'cause they are joined by and identical syllable they are mixed together and the doubled syllable is reduced to just one, or if they are joined by the same vowel the extra vowel dissappears ("de el perro" are joined to make "del perro", which means "of the dog" if you wonder; but it really does not matters, it's just an example for you linguistics' wiz)...
It does happen in some languages, yes. But the two pieces of evidence work together, and when you consider all of the information, your explanation simply doesn't fit
Furthermore, even experts at the end do nothing but guess, it's just that they add more "knowledge" which is in itself a very debatable thing but...
No. Professionals do not "guess". They assemble facts and knowledge which may be both uncertain and debatable, and present them as a "theory" or "estimate". A "guess" is based on no evidence at all, which is highly unprofessional. Furthermore, they don't publish their findings until they're sure - ie, they don't "think aloud" the way you seem to in your posts.
you studied linguistics so... From your point of view... You can't say a word on epistemology to a philosopher so...
Don't put words into peoples' mouths. I have studied linguistics, therefore I am more likely to be right about a purely linguistic topic. I am open to being wrong, if the person challenging my knowledge has convincing evidence. Which you NEVER have, I might add.
I give life without final declarations and leave others to vivisect my posts;
I suppose you mean dissection, since your post is not a live animal.
so say they are wrong and say why if you think you have an appropiate reason, but do not label them as "nonsense"
If your post was clearly understandible and provided evidence which was flawed, I would say that it was wrong. Since it was unintelligible and based on nothing more than your guesses and assumptions, it was nonsense. Literally: non-sense. It made no sense. Understand?!
just because "your degree in linguistics is your license to kill [options]"
I didn't say I had a degree in linguistics. I'm an archaeologist.
... You tell others about being an adult and how to behave and make me remember those little brats who went around bossing the smaller kids saying they (the smaller kids) had to obey them (the brats) if they wanted to be real adults but were they (the brats) themself nothing but a childish mockery...
Hmm - you seem to think that by insulting me you can get out of being corrected. I have been on this site for over a year, and yes, I do share the role of maintaining the standards of expected behaviour from posters. A number of other people have told you the same thing, but you haven't listened to them either. You arrived on this site in the last couple of weeks and immediately began pouring forth reams of bearly readable, inaccurate pop etymology which is both unhelpful and misleading to the people who visit our site looking for answers. This is not acceptable to me or to others (see Magia's post)
You say you are not fuzzy and you are not rude but, look at yourself... behave... You will be treated the way you treat. Bye.
I am not rude. Perhaps you do not understand casual Australian English, if you see my posts as rude. I could understand that.
I think it is rude to join a site and expect to behave however you want, rather than fitting in with the accepted behavioural mores at that site.
Quite frankly, I'm sick and tired of people asking honest questions on this board and getting in response one of your chaotic, inaccurate, unreadable, unhelpful, obtuse, ambiguous and above all ANNOYING posts.
If you don't like sticking to facts on the Facts Board, then go away.
that is just YOUR opinion;
Yes, but it is opinion made on the basis of solid knowledge of English to Slavic transliteration.
"the 'no' in 'nobyl' is part of the element 'cherno', so the second element is 'byl' not 'nobyl'"
I recognized that the second element was indeed "byl" (grass) and therefore admited my mistake (just due to probabilities),
Your posts are too unclear to assume that the querying poster would catch that detail. It had to be clarified.
but there are cases that when a suffix and a preffix are joined 'cause they are joined by and identical syllable they are mixed together and the doubled syllable is reduced to just one, or if they are joined by the same vowel the extra vowel dissappears ("de el perro" are joined to make "del perro", which means "of the dog" if you wonder; but it really does not matters, it's just an example for you linguistics' wiz)...
It does happen in some languages, yes. But the two pieces of evidence work together, and when you consider all of the information, your explanation simply doesn't fit
Furthermore, even experts at the end do nothing but guess, it's just that they add more "knowledge" which is in itself a very debatable thing but...
No. Professionals do not "guess". They assemble facts and knowledge which may be both uncertain and debatable, and present them as a "theory" or "estimate". A "guess" is based on no evidence at all, which is highly unprofessional. Furthermore, they don't publish their findings until they're sure - ie, they don't "think aloud" the way you seem to in your posts.
you studied linguistics so... From your point of view... You can't say a word on epistemology to a philosopher so...
Don't put words into peoples' mouths. I have studied linguistics, therefore I am more likely to be right about a purely linguistic topic. I am open to being wrong, if the person challenging my knowledge has convincing evidence. Which you NEVER have, I might add.
I give life without final declarations and leave others to vivisect my posts;
I suppose you mean dissection, since your post is not a live animal.
so say they are wrong and say why if you think you have an appropiate reason, but do not label them as "nonsense"
If your post was clearly understandible and provided evidence which was flawed, I would say that it was wrong. Since it was unintelligible and based on nothing more than your guesses and assumptions, it was nonsense. Literally: non-sense. It made no sense. Understand?!
just because "your degree in linguistics is your license to kill [options]"
I didn't say I had a degree in linguistics. I'm an archaeologist.
... You tell others about being an adult and how to behave and make me remember those little brats who went around bossing the smaller kids saying they (the smaller kids) had to obey them (the brats) if they wanted to be real adults but were they (the brats) themself nothing but a childish mockery...
Hmm - you seem to think that by insulting me you can get out of being corrected. I have been on this site for over a year, and yes, I do share the role of maintaining the standards of expected behaviour from posters. A number of other people have told you the same thing, but you haven't listened to them either. You arrived on this site in the last couple of weeks and immediately began pouring forth reams of bearly readable, inaccurate pop etymology which is both unhelpful and misleading to the people who visit our site looking for answers. This is not acceptable to me or to others (see Magia's post)
You say you are not fuzzy and you are not rude but, look at yourself... behave... You will be treated the way you treat. Bye.
I am not rude. Perhaps you do not understand casual Australian English, if you see my posts as rude. I could understand that.
I think it is rude to join a site and expect to behave however you want, rather than fitting in with the accepted behavioural mores at that site.
Quite frankly, I'm sick and tired of people asking honest questions on this board and getting in response one of your chaotic, inaccurate, unreadable, unhelpful, obtuse, ambiguous and above all ANNOYING posts.
If you don't like sticking to facts on the Facts Board, then go away.
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