Re: [pieml] The Ten Lectures of Misra

There is no single argument mentioned in your extract that has not been dealt with by Hock and other critics. The fact that Misra's only response is a tighter insulation of his idiosyncratic ideas against the outside world shows that he is not prepared to accept fair criticism and so cannot be taken seriously. We are invited to believe that Misra and his disciples are right and everyone else since Bopp and Grimm is wrong. Such an attitude makes discussion impossible. I wouldn't waste my money on the next book by Erich von Daeniken just to check if he has written anything scientifically sound this time.

Piotr

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From: kalyan97

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Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 2:53 AM

Subject: [pieml] Re: IE: likely home, India

--- In pieml@......, Miguel Carrasquer Vidal <mcv@......> wrote> If the rather long extract of the concluding lecture is anything to go > by, the book is not worth my time reading. If the book is not at > fault, the extract is. Maybe, but then how can you judge without reading the book, if you have already prejudged that it is not worth the time? Just because he seems to question the Law of Palatals or the antiquity of Sanskrit 'a'? I do not want to waste the space of the list by posting the book which contains many evidences. But one should be willing to listen for them to have any relevance or 'meaning' (I know, I am stepping on complex ground of semantics here).