From: tgpedersen
Message: 58414
Date: 2008-05-09
>Well, it's not just this one time, he's done it on several occasions.
> At 5:44:52 PM on Thursday, May 8, 2008, tgpedersen wrote:
>
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan"
> > <proto-language@> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> >> Secondly, I do not see Mr. Kelkar pushing his
> >> interpretation of history though that may be his ultimate
> >> motivation.
>
> > I can't figure out what his motivation is for attacking
> > Grimm's law. Why is that so important to him?
>
> I don't think that he cares one way or the other about
> Grimm's Law: for obvious reasons he likes anything that
> suggests that some traditional tenet of IE linguistics is
> wrong. And if he realized that Gessman's 'Proto-Aryan' is
> PIE, he may well have seen in 'The Proto-Aryan basis on
> which [the 'Germanic Consonant Shift'] had been predicated
> has vanished' a confirmation of his position that PIE is a
> figment of the imaginations of Eurocentric linguists.