Re: Satem shift

--- In cybalist@..., markodegard@... wrote:

> Piotr writes (with great wit):
>
> "For Diwos sake, what
> do you mean by speaking like that? Did you hear him, lads? He said
> [k_W_etwores], like a bloody Proto-Greek. [kWetwores], would you
> believe it? He's a refayned person. He thinks he's smarter than us
> Aryas."
>
> This is the start of a good IE tale, Piotr, even a novel.
> Pre-proto-Indo-Iranians dissing the speech of pre-proto-Greeks, if
> spoken correctly, makes for an interesting lesson in philology,

tho'

> only those who grok Sanskrit, Avestan and Homer would get it.

I think I read such a story once; where, I forgot, unfortunately:
Someone had called for a missionary from Germany (Thuringia?) to come
to England to evangelize, but his pronunciation made the natives
laugth (8th-9th century?).

Torsten