Re: [tied] Re: On the ordering of some PIE rules

At 3:05:09 AM on Wednesday, June 6, 2007, tgpedersen wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:

>> At 12:39:59 AM on Wednesday, June 6, 2007, Rick McCallister
>> wrote:

>> > --- "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:

>> >> At 7:39:02 AM on Wednesday, May 30, 2007, tgpedersen
>> >> wrote:

>> >> > Germanic spirantizes stops before stops: haft-s
>> >> > Sabellic does too: scriftas, screihtas
>> >> > Old Irish does too: recht
>> >> > Iranian does too: bust,
>> >> > and it does more: fs^umans, fDroi

>> >> > Latin doesn't: scriptum
>> >> > Sanskrit doesn't: buddh-

>> >> > Germanic is irregular here: it should be -fT-, not
>> >> -ft-.
>> >> > Why?

>> >> What's irregular about it?

>> > He noted that the -t doesn't spirantize. [...]

>> I know. So what? That's not in itself an irregularity.

> It's an exception.

Depends on how you state the rule, obviously. Looks pretty
regular to me.

Brian