Re: [tied] Future of Grimm's law.pdf

>Incidentally, I think a lot of confusion and heat is avoided by
>treating the conventional reconstructions as merely a phonetic
>spelling, where the relationship between symbols and sounds need not
>be any more obvious than, say, pinyin.

Yes, I have often argued that we should - to some extent - reclaim the old
idea of the symbols in PIE being abstract symbols. We need a balance - an
awareness that they point towards a phonetic reality but they vary in how
far they are phonetic symbols.

Peter