Re[2]: [tied] Unreality...

At 9:31:28 PM on Saturday, June 5, 2004,
enlil@... wrote:

> Jens:

>> Like you said, if I understood you, that has no immediate
>> repercussions for the prehistory of either Sanskrit or
>> PIE. It does, however, affect the situation indirectly,
>> since it extinguishes the red light.

> Define 'extinguishes the red light'. It doesn't sound like
> a valid English idiom. What red light?

If I haven't completely lost track,

red light = prohibition against monovocalic systems,

and this

is extinguished = is done away with

if a monovocalic system is shown to have existed at some
point.

Brian