Linguistics supresses all the efforts to be SCIENCE

[Yuri Tambovtsev]

To Tom Givon
Dear Tom, what is Bio-Linguistics? You are quite correct: biology is messy. 
Neverthless , it at least tries to be SCIENCE while linguistics supresses 
all the efforts of the sort. In the reconstruction of proto-language forms 
linguists ignore statistics. It is especially vivid in Finno-Ugric 
linguistics. Linguists reconstruct proto-forms on some Finno-Ugric language, 
often Finish but ignore Mansi (Vogul) or Hanty (Ostjak). So, the way out is 
to use the occurrence of all the correspondences. What do you think? Be 
well, Yuri Tambovtsev