Re: Short and long vowels

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "elmeras2000" <jer@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-
> language@...> wrote:
> >
> > As for evidence, this may be the hypothesis that you will
> > have the most difficult time accepting because it contravenes
> > current PIE theory so much. I believe that voiceless aspirated
> > plosives must be reconstructed for PIE: *ph, *th, and *kh.
>
> I know they must, the evidence is there.

Do you mean, Jens, that there were voiceless aspirates
as _allophones_ of the voiceless stops or of the voiced
aspirates?

> > I do not expect that you will be able to agree with much of
> > what I have hypothesized but thank you for the opportunity to
> > expostulate it.
>
> Do you mean "expound"? Expostulate seems to have some quite
> embarrassing meanings which you hardly intend. Or has that
> been lost?

Oh now, Jens, in Sprachenkindergarden we prefer not to
suppress our students' enthusiastic ejaculations. :^)

David