Re: Last point: Lesbianism is NOT salacious

Jhno wrote:

>Poitr can you enlishten me on
>the use and history of gender in PIE and the differences within and
>between languages?

Piort wrote:

>[...]
>Introductory handbooks often do more to confuse the question of IE >gender
>than to clarify it, partly because of the strange >schizophrenia about the
>"Indo-Hittite" hypothesis [...]
>In effect, we often reconstruct non-Anatolian IE and call it PIE, >unless
>it's necessary to take Anatolian data into account.

Excellent answer you gave to Jhon, Poitr, about the condition of IE studies.
The last point is especially something that should be understood about the
vague term "Indo-European". I'd prefer to call the older version
"Indo-Anatolian" as opposed to "Indo-European". The term Indo-Hittite
ignores the rest of the branch that Hittite belongs to.

- NeLg

PS: Lesbianism is still in no way salacious.

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