Re: [tied] A snappy comeback

On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 11:35:36 +0000, tgpedersen
<tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>Yes, that's very detailed,

I can get much more detailed than that, but not without
special fonts. It will all be in my article on the
transmission of the Phoenician alphabet to Greece, Italy and
Anatolia, to be published in the 2nd. edition of the Int'l
Encyclopaedia of Language and Linguistics.

>but a detailed conjecture is still a
>conjecture. And it's based on the assumption that laryngeals had
>disappeared in Greek, which ihis case amounts to begging the
>question. I don't think anyone tried to work out the details of the
>hypothetical case that they hadn't.

Well, go ahead, who's stopping you?

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