Re: [tied] A snappy comeback

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:

> 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.

Aha. I'll check that out.

>
> >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?
>

But, but... It's all so sudden! I'll get around to it one day.

Torsten