[tied] Re: Eggs from birds and swift horses (was: the palatal sham)

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, enlil@... wrote:

> Jens to Piotr:
> > I am no more daft than I can understand that the etymology *may*

be

> > right, but we need something that *must* if we are to make whole

new

> > rules.
>
> If I may rudely interject. I found that quote interesting.
>
> Precisely the objection I so far have with a "whole new rule"
> of infixing in the O-fix solution or the "whole new rule"
> of lenition **to-s > *so... "but we need something that *must*
> (be right) if we are to make whole new rules", afterall.
> But somehow when I say it, I'm being stubborn :)

It sure looks that way. I make no rule out of the event *to-s > *so-
s > *so, which may be right or wrong. I do make a rule out of the O-
fix business where I am now even being mildly rebuked for wanting to
use safe etymologies.

Jens