Re: [tied] Re: Balto-Slavic -RHj-?

From: mkapovic@...
Message: 35817
Date: 2005-01-05

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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "willemvermeer" <wrvermeer@...>
> wrote:
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>> But, as is often
>> the case with Kortlandt, the story is merely sketched in rough
>> outline and the reader has to bring in a lot of background
> knowledge
>> and do a lot of homework to see what is really going on, let alone
>> get into a position where critically informed evaluation becomes
>> possible.
>
> I know, as possibly every attentive reader of "Slavic accentuation"
> does. His style is indeed rather unreadble.

Hm, I think that user-unfriendliness is a prerequisite for almost any book
on Slavic accentology :-). Dybo's style is not much more readable than
Kortlandt's...

Mate