Re: [TIED] Beekes' Translation English.

From: Piotr Gasiorowski

I wonder what Mark thinks of Szemerényi's Introduction.

Sz reads better than RSPB. The one thing about Sz is the massive number of bibliographic notes he gives; it easily represents half of the text.

 

Beekes denies the existance of PIE [a]. Szemerényi says all the laryngeals are nothing more and nothing less than aitch. I gather that just about everyone says both of them are wrong.

 

I'm at the point where I'm beginning to understand what must be understood if you are to understand the inner workings of PIE, and and how these inner workings are reflected in the daughter languages. In that I'm essentially self-taught in the necessary associated disciplines, it's a painful process.

 

Mark.