17-11-03 14:26, Marco Moretti wrote:
> Nobody agrees in anything
> with anybody else, it looks like a continuous and vain skirmish.
> I'm sorry, but I consider all this as a clear symptom of the
> decadence of Science.
"Always with the negative waves, Moretti!" as Donald Sutherland would
say. Science is not about discovering the Ultimate Truth but about
attempting to find better alternatives to earlier hypotheses. Hamp's
etymology of <zot> and <zonjë> is so much superior to anything based on
*djeu- (for reasons already explained by Miguel) that it has already won
the acceptence of most specialists. It wasn't a vain skirmish but a
clear victory.
Piotr