[tied] Re: Monovocalism: sequel

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

>
> Jens:
> > Hey, that's what I meant. Almost is good enough - if one

language is

> > almost that way, surely some prestage of PIE could theoretically
> > also have been almost that way.
>
> "Almost that way" is different from "completely that way" which was
> your assertion beforehand. I can accept "almost that way" because

that

> was my point all along! So to paraphrase you more succinctly: "Yes,
> gLeN, you were right here and I don't know why I resisted for so

long."

>
> Cool.

I would indeed have credited you with a guiding wisdom if you had
said this. But this option seems to have appeared to none of us at
first and it certainly was not verbalized on the list. Afterwards it
seems so strange that it wasn't.

Jens