Re: [tied] Piotr & Rom. substrate

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From: alexmoeller@...

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Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 7:03 AM

Subject: Re: [tied] Piotr & Rom. substrate

> But it must be the job of the romanian linguists.And there is almost as nothing.
I know just 2 persons who worked a bit about this. One was Reichenkron and the last one was Russu. As Reichenkron ( he analized several romanian word , but archaic and which donot belong anymore to the living words into romanian) made this analize he was hard crticized by Rosetti and Russu and Phillippide, no one of them having the possiblity to say something else, just to criticize him. Some  years later Russu ( who was one who criticised Reichenkron) begun a similar job, this time with living words. He found some corect radicals, he got some explanatios and.. no one knows why, he stoped his work.

 

This is positively offensive to a number of dedicated scholars who know more about the subject than you ever will. As for Günther Reichenkron, he did a thorough job, but various aspects of his analyses have been criticised for very good reasons, not only by the scholars mentioned above. Criticism is an indispensable part of the scientific process.

 

> If I am a dreamer trying to find the PIE corespondents of romanian substrate, tell meplease why . Why should be a dreamer?What do I forget here, whatr I am acting wrong?

What you evidently forget is that bare enthusiasm is no substitute for learning. You attempt to speculate about linguistic problems without even trying to learn the rudiments of Indo-European and Romance linguistics.

 

Piotr