Re: The Thrakoid presence in ancient Ukraine (Was: [tied] Thracian

george knysh wrote:

> I apologize to Piotr for the rudeness of my reaction
> to his comments about the Thrakoid pesence on the
> territory of Ukraine in ancient times. My only excuse
> is that it was nearly 4 a.m. here and I was dead
> beat. I won't do it again.

I also apologise for any sarcasm that may have slipped into my postings,
and now let's forget about the whole thing. If I specialised in studies
of Slavic hydronymy, some of my bookshelves would of course be stacked
with monographs and article collections by my Ukrainian colleagues. As
it is, I have some such literature within easy reach, but following your
references was not really a simple job. Thanks for the excellent idea of
uploading the article. Beastly decent of you, old chap :)

> It is a pity that there seem to be no Ukrainian,
> Belarusian, or Russian linguists on Cybalist (at least
> none who care to intervene frequently). Sergejus
> Tarasovas occasionally tries, but he's more into
> Baltic and Lithuanian. There was a chap Stetsiuk back
> in 1999, but he seems to have disappeared (along with
> the list founder...)and in any case his point of view
> appeared to be somewhat less tham mainstream, putting
> it delicately. Is there no way for Piotr to encourage
> participation by such experts?

It's really a shame that the Eastern Slavs are so underrepresented on a
forum founded by a Russian. I've never tried to attract new members by
sending direct invitations to academic institutions, but perhaps i
should consider such a move.

Piotr