Re: [tied] Re: IE lexical accent

Jens:

> Laugh all you like, the code appears to have been partly cracked now
> by a young candidate student of my own. The IE initial clusters have
> been found to correspond to simple consonants in Uralic.

I'm sure. I'll continue laughing. I've seen people try to do this before
and it's a sham as always. There's far too much leeway in such a hobby
to produce credible results. Tell me what *str- would relate to in
Uralic then. Would it be *n' by chance? Come off it now.

> Anybody with an honest brain would know that without evidence you
> cannot say anything. It seems to be true that the IE alternation
> between vowel grades combined with accent mobility is peculiar to
> Indo-European. That however does not exclude in any way that the
> prestage had clusters.

Damned if it doesn't give credence to my view though.

>> It's time for you to add two plus two in this respect.
>
> Some seem to forget that it makes only four.

"Only" four, you say, as if the inevitable logic of that answer is
insufficient to you.


= gLeN