From: elmeras2000
Message: 33108
Date: 2004-06-06
> At 9:31:28 PM on Saturday, June 5, 2004,Precisely. Nice to be understood.
> 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