Re: [tied] RE: PIE's latest news

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: S & L
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2003 8:20 PM
> Subject: [tied] RE: PIE's latest news
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> > Forgive my stupid question, but, at Pokorny's level, who is the

latest

> news on/in PIE ?
>
> I regret to say that there is no single reference book to serve as a
> state-of-the-art improvement on Pokorny's dictionary. The knowledge
> collected over the past decades is in dispersed form: journal

articles,

> conference papers, monographs of particular problems, histories of
> particular languages, etc. One of the purposes of this list is to

help

> interested amateurs to find acces to such hard-to-get information.
>
> Piotr

And then there was Cybalist and it was good.

Not only is the information presented valuable, but there is a lot of
entertainment value also. People of vision trying to lead the
curious into the light can provide some interesting drama and a few
laughs along the way. As a Yahoo Group it doesn't get much better.

Just an amateur's insight.

Peter P