The palatal sham :)

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> Hm. It follows from me getting frustrated when I propose something
> new and the response I get is a restatement of something that's

basic

> knowledge to most people that know anything about historical
> lingustics. The message I'm getting is that whoever responds that

way

> see my proposal not as an attempt to propose something new and

better

> but as a failure on my part to understand basic textbook stuff.
>
> So much for that. I'd like to discuss the idea that supposed PIE
> plain velars occur only in loans. So, fire away, list some examples
> of what you believe to be incontrovertible examples of plain velars
> and I'll check with Møller and Bomhard. I find them, you lose; I
> don't find them, I lose. OK?

What if they primarily occurred in loans into PIE itself?

Richard.