Re: PD: Odp: Last Point: Lesbianism is salaciousq

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From: Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...>
To: Gerry Reinhart-Waller <waluk@...>
Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2000 1:18 AM
Subject: Odp: [cybalist] Re: Odp: Last Point: Lesbianism is
salaciousq


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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Gerry Reinhart-Waller <waluk@...>
> To: Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...>;
> <cybalist@egroups.com>
> Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2000 12:19 AM
> Subject: [cybalist] Re: Odp: Last Point: Lesbianism is
> salaciousq
>
>
> > Gerry: NeLg, Poitr, and Jhon seem to be saying that
none
> of the terms
> > appear to be correct. Indo-European is vague,
> Indo-Hittite is allusive,
> > and as far as I'm concerned Indo-Anatolian could hold
true
> for Turkic
> > Indo sector of I-E but not for the remainder. What
wrong
> with say
> > Indo-Aryan or is the term Aryan "loaded"?
> > Yreg
> >
>
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> > Not so much loaded as already taken, since in
> modern usage Aryan
> > = Indo-Iranian.
> >
> > Piotr
> >
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> > Yeh. That's right. Then should we simply stick with
the
> old term I-E
> > since most folks already know it?
> > Gerry
>
> This is what we're doing here. The term IE is almost 200
> years old, so that whatever its drawbacks it's got
tradition
> on its side. The problem is that it would be advisable to
> distinguish non-Anatolian IE from IE in the broadest
sense,
> and "Proto-non-Anatolian-Indo-European" looks very ugly.
>
> Piotr
>