 The Vasconist scholar Larry Trask said "like the majority of such dramatic announcements, this one has been universally rejected.Pictish specialists dismiss it out of hand, and vasconists have been no more impressed".The criticisms focus on random readings being assigned to Ogam letters, alleged complete decipherment of inscriptions too weathered to be read with certainty, the use of 20th century Basque rather than reconstructed Proto-Basque forms, disregarding syntax and highly fanciful translations.