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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "m_iacomi" <m_iacomi@...>
wrote:... pompous claims about code cracking are no substitute for
> proof of relationship between those slightly deceased guys and
> ancestors of IE people.
Dear Marius Iacomi,
All claims sound pompous because many people have cried 'wolf'
or 'eureka', during the last 150 years, claiming insights into this
seemingly intractable problem. Scepticism is warranted.
My humble submission is that linguistics alone cannot resolve the
problem of parole in the civilization area circa 5000 years Before
Present. We have to evolve means for networking with other
disciplines: say, general semantics; say, art criticism; say, an
expansion of Carl Darling Buck's A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms
in the Principal Indo-European Languages: A Contribution to the
History of Ideas (to include Prakrits and substrates of Bharatiya
languages). With a data base of such dimensions, some progress may
perhaps be made to delineate the linguistic area. Surely, the IE
work has to pause and re-organize itself; shall I say, a paradigm
shift is called for to make significant leaps in knowledge systems?