Re: ka and k^a [was: [tied] *kW- "?"]

From: tgpedersen
Message: 40372
Date: 2005-09-23

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>
wrote:
> At 6:39:51 PM on Thursday, September 22, 2005, tgpedersen
> wrote:
>
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, glen gordon
> > <glengordon01@...> wrote:
>
> >> Torsten:
>
> >>> How about this: (Non-Anatolian) PIE is a trade language,
> >>> [...]
>
> >> How about this: Stop beating a dead horse. IE is not a
> >> trading language for the reasons that have been repeated
> >> a billion and one times before on this and other forums
> >> on that subject of "trading languages".
>
> > I must have missed that. PIEer's didn't trade?
>
> 'Trade language' and 'language spoken by people who do some
> trading' are two very different things.
>

Epistomologically, yes. In practice?


Torsten