From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 31438
Date: 2004-03-13
> At 10:33:37 AM on Saturday, March 13, 2004, William H. wrote:I agree and I declare this thread closed. Enough is enough.
>>--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "m_iacomi"
>><m_iacomi@...> wrote:
>>>--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Lisa Darie
>>><elixir032000@...> wrote:
>>pretty harsh aren't you? who's to say this theory out of
>>the many hundred theories and links to minoan linear a is
>>not right.
>
>
> Quite a few people here. Daniel already noted the absurdity
> of DU-MI-NE-QA 'Sunday'. The matches with modern Romanian
> spelling, in disagreement with the Latin, are absurd. (I
> especially like MI-NA 'hand', matched with supposed Rom.
> <mina>, <mana>: my Romanian is non-existent, but I'd bet
> that it's really a later <mînã> and an earlier <mânã>.) The
> classification of water words is also very silly, with
> French <eau> and Spanish <agua> separated from each other
> and from Latin <aqua>.
>
> Marius is quite correct: the silliness is too patent to
> require discussion, let alone detailed refutation.