Re: Hamp on Alb.

> > On 2006-07-07 14:49, tgpedersen wrote:
> >
> > > Language is generally insuffiently expressive compared to a
> suitably
> > > powerful symbolic language (and bla-bla). I meant that the
> language
> > > you intended would have been LBK in the outside world, not in
> your
> > > mind (and said language might have left traces in Balkan
> languages,
> > > whichever they were). I know you have reserved LBK as the PIE

ur-

> > > culture.
> >
> > Leaving bla-bla on the side,
>
> For the record, the "bla-bla" was an auto-comment
>
> __________
> I think I may be overstepping my boundaries by commenting on
>what you wrote there:

Not at all

> I think other English speakers on cybalist will agree with me
>when I say that your use of the term "auto-comment" sounds a bit
>peculiar when read. I take it you mean "auto" in its Greek meaning
>of "self", and meant that it was a comment for yourself only.

I meant it as a comment of the lack of precision in what I myself
had said.

>However, I think generally speaking in English "auto-" as a prefix
>has come to be understood most frequently as a short form
>for "automatic", and often suggests a machine or some other
>automated mechanism. Hence when you said that "bla-bla" was an
>auto-comment, it sounded like you meant that it was a comment
>automatically generated by your computer. I know you certainly
>don't need help regarding English, you could probably teach me, but
>I think the coinage "self-comment" might have been more correct.
> This may have been a completely unnecessary comment on my part,
>but I just wanted to mention it, because I remember you used a
>similar coinage once before which I didn't understand at the time.

Duly noted.

Maybe someone even want to comment on the suitabilty of 'allofamy',
too?


Torsten