Re: [tied] Unreality...

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

> Brian clarifies:
> > 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.
>
> If so, then I say "yes" only if we're talking on a sufficiently
> abstract level.

We are.

> I accept the analysis of Sanskrit but Sanskrit
> is still not truly monovocalic.

Truly enough. It is as easy to make do with one vowel phoneme for
Sanskrit as with ten for Latin. That's how close it is.

> Whatever. This is all wordplay
> now and very divorced from linguistics.

No, it's what linguistics of this kind is all about.

Jens