Pavel:
>It seems that most of members of this list is not interested in translating
>into PIE and that they consider such activity to be rather conlanging than
>serious linguistic.
David:
>That's what I'm most interested in, but I have nothing to contribute
>except questions, and I get the impression that some are annoyed by those
>questions, so I don't ask them often.
Personally, I think that the attempt of translating everyday things or
familiar passages of texts into PIE is an immensely instructive way of
learning a language and understanding fully what aspects of PIE grammar
and vocabulary still need to be studied. It's not conlangish at all.
It's a necessary part of our learning and a great way to further
comparative linguistics!
I'm finding it valuable to my own understanding of PIE and I hereby
encourage it. Thanks people!
- gLeN
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