From: alex
Message: 26795
Date: 2003-11-01
>I see as usual the discution between us takes a path which is not
> Of course you _may_ suppose what you want, including green elephants
> flying over your desktop. You _should_ not, though, if you want to
> use efficiently your time on planet Earth and not wasting others'
> time with nonsensical ascii lines.
>> The books you are talking about have their limits due the ideaYou are not in position to decide about my position:-)
>> they want to exprime.
>
> You are not in position to know what those limits are.
>No. I promised to Piotr I won't reopen the subject until I don't show
>>> BS. Romanian inherited word is "zi", with article "ziua", giving
>>> a reconstructed analogical form "ziuã", there is nothing to wonder
>>> about (-ua < -illa, see also Miguel's post).
>>
>> Ah! so, you are so sure as the poorman in the church. Keep on it.
>
> It's obvious for anyone but those wearing blinkers. On the article
> -ua we had already a discussion which you certainly forgot, as usual.
>> Your meaning in Late Latin is not kept in your language. See "now".I said that "azi" should be seen in relationship with "hodie" , I did
>
> You are making even less sense as usual (if possible). I did not
> advocate for "hodie" > "azi", that's by all means your invention,
> and I am not interested by the semantic problem you create. I just
> pointed out that the tendency [d] > [dz] > [z] in some phonetic
> conditions belongs to a late stage of VL, it is not a feature to
> be supposedly found _only_ in (Northern) Thracian, as your fixation
> still goes on.
>
> Marius Iacomi