Re: [tied] 1sg. -o: [was Re: IE Thematic Vowel Rule]

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From: "glen gordon" <glengordon01@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 7:54 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] 1sg. -o: [was Re: IE Thematic Vowel Rule]


> Patrick, miseducated as usual:
> > -*mi is a particle which exists in IE as an
> > inflection.
>
> If you're talking about case inflection, there is
> no "IE" inflection of that sort, only endings with
> *-bHi- since its origins from the particle *bHi
> are clear. What you're refering to is restricted to
> a few dialects of IE... Ergo, Post-IE.
>
> Wrong again, but congrats on your 'diploma'. What
> college did you say you were from again? It wasn't
> the Sylvan Learning Center, was it?
>
>
> = gLeN

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Patrick:

I find it hilarious that my browser unerringly categorizes _all_ of Glen's
postings as JUNK E-MAIL - just as I and most of us do.

I do not comment on his ideas to help him learn (since that it impossible)
but just on some of the basic things about linguistics that he
misunderstands, ignores, or of which he is completely ignorant - in the
interests of preventing his quarter-baked ideas from infecting other
readers. I am sure that to many of our younger readers, who have, at least,
a high-school diploma, his constant spelling mistakes in English and French,
will be apparent - and not emulated.

Actually, my schools were the University of Nebraska and the Oriental
Institute of the University of Chicago, schools that would never accept Glen
as an undergraduate.

Now, as to his latest lunacy:

1) It is apparent to everyone, I would assume, that both -*bhi and -*mi are
not originally instrumental inflections semantically: -*bhi, as Glen would
know if he ever could afford a decent reference book, old or new, means
'around'; -*mi, as we know from related languages, means 'on'; the compound
*ambhi in PIE means 'on the circumference of'.

2) My guess is that the instrumental was originally a comitative, perhaps
in -*s, and that -*mi and -*bhi were enlisted as replacements by various
daughter languages when a different -*s came to be used as a nominative
singular and plural ending but I have no proof for this.

Glen, why do you not tell us about your (lack of) educational background so
we can decide whether or not it is superior to that offered by the Sylvan
Learning Center? Is "Sylvan" a mental institution with which you are
personally familiar?

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