From: Rick McCallister
Message: 59361
Date: 2008-06-21
--- In cybalist@... s.com, "mkelkar2003" <swatimkelkar@ ...> wrote:
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http://www.arch. cam.ac.uk/ ~pah1003/ loe/Eng/Papers/ AbstractsTalks/ TalkAbstractHegg arty080514. pdf
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> "When reconstruction leads either to unhelpful concepts like `king',
> or to other meanings more convenient for
> their cultural constructs, linguistic palaeontologists pick and
> choose. In the first case, they explicitly recognise
> semantic uncertainty and retreat to the vaguer `ruler'; in the
> second, they insist that the reconstruction could
> only have meant their preferred `culturally strong' interpretation,
> such as `wheel' (not just `turner').
What is a turner?Sounds like a lathe, in Spanish "torno"
Maybe including potter's wheel, all non-transportation functions of a wheel