(September 16, 2022 at 3:42 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(September 15, 2022 at 10:54 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote: Yeah. People in soft sciences do not understand the value of statistics, or even of the scientific method. If you try to follow the scientific method in historical linguistics, you get mocked because of that, rather than praised.
Have you ever, even for a moment, entertained the possibility that you're being mocked because you're wrong?
Boru
If I am wrong, I am certainly less wrong than mainstream linguistics is. Mainstream linguistics does not follow the scientific method at all when etymologizing the toponyms, I do.