Re: Indian Retroflexes

At 9:36:17 AM on Monday, October 29, 2012, shivkhokra wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott"
> <bm.brian@...> wrote:

>> At 12:02:13 PM on Friday, October 26, 2012, shivkhokra
>> wrote:

>>> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Francesco Brighenti"
>>> <frabrig@> wrote:

>> [...]

>>>> See again Witzel:

>>>> http://azargoshnasp.net/history/Aryan/EJVS-7-3.pdf (pp. 58-59)

>>>> [..] In sum, retroflexion affects all those moving into
>>>> the E. Iranian borderland, the Indus plain and the
>>>> subcontinent. but this does not work vice versa: those
>>>> who move out of India, sooner or later, loose it.

>>> I am afraid this is just plain uninformed. British did not
>>> learn retroflexes even after staying in India for hundreds
>>> of years.

>> Oh, put a sock in it. The British never moved into India
>> in the relevant sense, as I pointed out before.

> Nice joke. For a starter figure out how many years did
> "The William Jones" lived in India.

The only joke here is your bizarre notion that the number of
years that William Jones lived in India has anything to do
with the point that I made, which you clearly still haven't
understood. I doubt that you've even made an effort to do
so, and I'm not sure that you're able to do so even if you
tried.