Re: [tied] Re: Nominative: A hybrid view

On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Glen Gordon wrote:

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> Jens:
> >Nor was it ever important in the extreme analysis of PIE vocalism.
>
> I'm not interested in "extreme analyses" of any language. [...]

Now, that *was* the topic, whether your lordship permits it or not.

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> >If we apply the standards by which PIE was made to be monovocalic,
> >Sanskrit actually gets _very_ close to being just that.
>
> Yes, close but no cigar.

It gets there, I was wrong in my assessment: The latitude of the PIE
analysis is such that the petty problems of Sanskrit slip through the
meshes. And that's all I ever said.


Jens