Re: [tied] PIE Stop System

That's the decisive point! However, it may still be only a minority that
can see that. It is a far more widespread attitude that scholarly
criticism of the most forced and unlikely kind is better than even
assertions based on the obvious.

So, perhaps it is better for our field to say, not that traditional IE is
alright, but that criticism against it is invalid - for reasons that are
too hard to understand to be reported here. That seems to be the kind of
rhetoric that wins.

Jens

On Sun, 14 Sep 2003, Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:

> 14-09-03 15:17, Jens Elmegaard Rasmussen wrote:
>
> >> The same argument works for Germanic (early Celtic and eastern loans
> in
> >> Germanic show b, d, g > p, t, k).
> >
> > Unless the words were borrowed in their old forms and only later
> changed
> > in the donor languages.
>
> ... which would require an unlikely conspiracy, since in the case of
> Germanic we're dealing with _diverse_ donors.
>
> Piotr
>
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