Re: sum

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "elmeras2000" <jer@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
> wrote:
>
> [JER:]
> > > So all in all, one
> > > will only ascribe pre-PIE age to the structure of sum if one

has

> > to.
> > > And one doesn't have to.
> > >
> >
> > Will one that? One is from Sjælland, I gather? ;-).
>
> Things I have said in scholarly debates have been confronted with
> many subtle arguments over the years. This one escapes me. Are you
> saying there is a hierarchy of birthplaces that qualify scholars

to

> different degrees? Then you can render a great service to humanity
> by telling us which birthplace is highest on the list so that we

can

> just ask those few that come from there what we want to know.
> Perhaps, however, before we get that far you would do well also to
> tell those of us that are less fortunate in this respect why we

have

> to believe there is such a hierarchy.
>

I was trying to make pun on the Sjælland use of 'én' "one" for 'I',
implying that while _you_ might think the path was a dead end, I
might explore it anyway. It is obvious to anybody, including me,
that you are the more competent linguist of us two. I don't believe
in any hierarchy of birthplaces, and I wouldn't know where to place
my own on such a list.


I certainly meant no offence. If I have offended you, please accept
my apology.


Torsten