Re: Ford -furta- fare

From: Torsten Pedersen
Message: 5766
Date: 2001-01-25

>>I think he and Cuny
> >got a bad rap, probably because he wrote in German, and at that
time
> >the Germans were not quite ripe for the idea of a connection IE-
AA.
>
> Everybody who was somebody in linguistics write in German at the
time.
> Evan franco- and anglophones.
>
>
> =======================
> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
> mcv@...

I know that. The idea was that writing in German (and a lot of
somebodies in linguistics were German then) your main audience is
German, and they had an emotional thing against the whole laryngeal
business.

Torsten