Re: Fw: [tied] Rayim

From: Patrick Ryan

Arnaud is quite the joker.

First he asks me to "prove" my equivalences; then he refuses to look at the
material that might.

Are you afraid that new information might injure your mind?

Patrick
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I'm afraid
we have little in common
when it comes to methods, proofs and data.

You want me to swallow
that in view of the premiss
that Proto-X had
mono-syllabic roots,
the root *ra "tree"
surfaces as *rabh "vaulted" in PIE.

The problem is I see no *information*

The premiss about mono-syllabic roots
is unproved by you
(and I think it's wrong).
Now you haven't proved
the root *ra "tree" exists.
and the semantic connection between
*ra "tree" > *rebh "vaulted" is strained
beyond any limits of credibility.

If you believe that *rabh proves *ra
proves mono-syllabism,
then I don't know what to say.
We will probably disagree many more times.

Arnaud
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