[tied] Re: Celtic and Baltic

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...>
wrote:

>
> Torsten misunderstands:
> >Pick up a copy of one of Møller's books, and you'll have Semitic-IE
> >correspondences galore, hundreds of them. Once you give up

'you give up' in this sentence should be read as 'one gives up'.
Sorry about the ambiguity.

>Møller's
> >(and Bomhard (who lists him among his references) 's) idea that the
> >relationship is cognacy, not loan,
>
> You haven't been paying attention, Torsten. I'm the one saying that
> the Semitic-IE correspondences ARE the result of later loans!

You misunderstand. See above.

>I have
> much skepticism for people who try to directly relate Semitic with

IE.

> There's just simply too much seperation between them to take any
> cognate connections seriously, aside from perhaps grammatical ones.
> But even there, there's a lot of difference between AfroAsiatic
> morphology and IE's. So I really don't think it's as simple as

comparing

> IE ablaut with Semitic ablaut as is often done to my ennui.
>

Now where did that come from?

Torsten