[tied] Re: Pronouns again

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:

> On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 12:14:01 -0000, "tgpedersen
> <tgpedersen@...>" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
>
> >--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...>

wrote:

>
> >> In my opinion, Emesal stands to Emegir as Prakrit to Sanskrit,

and

> >> represents a later stage of Sumerian.
> >I've seen that theory too. But if both Emesal and Prakrit were

spoken

> >by badly assimilated groups, they might contain flotsam of the
> >substrate language. Or?
>
> How can my wife and my children be "badly assimilated groups"?
>
> =======================
> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
> mcv@...

With no affront intended to your wife and children, I think your
knowledge of language is greater than theirs. And if instead of
becoming a linguist you had concentrated on your native language, you
might have been able to perform a Prakrit play with them. And if you
had been a member of a conquering people imposing your complicated
and prestige-laden language on the substrate population, and marrying
native, even more so.

Torsten