Re: [tied] Baltic-Slavic disintegration

Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "alex" <alxmoeller@...>
> To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 12:30 PM
> Subject: Re: [tied] Baltic-Slavic disintegration
>
>
>> that is a name and not a glosse. You use the word "cognate" here
>> since you think or you get the opinion of other people this name
>> must mean "king". Is there any reason beside a wild guess "why" this
>> name must mean king?
>
> It's an informed guess, not a wild one. The proposed PIE/Thracian
> correspondences form a consistent pattern and allow us to make sense
> of a number of words. Your tactics are very different: kick up as
> much dust as possible, ask the same questions time after time and
> ignore the answers till your own confusion begins to look like
> universal chaos; then amidst the tumult you have raised try to peddle
> your own incoherent ramblings as a valid argument.
>
> Piotr
>

No Piotr. I just want facts and not assumtions. The facts are these we
are missing. Assumptions are a lot.
Mines, yours, and many other and they will remain just wild guesses
despite any try to consider them "informed" or "educated" guesses.

Alex