From: tgpedersen
Message: 48878
Date: 2007-06-06
>Huh? I always use at least *two* fingers. OK, then.
> On 2007-06-06 17:49, tgpedersen wrote:
>
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@>
> > wrote:
> >> On 2007-06-06 10:51, tgpedersen wrote:
> >>
> >>> How would you state the rule so that the lack of
> >>> spirantization before stops is not an exception to Grimm?
>
> >> It isn't the lack of spirantisation before stops but ...
>
> > Not 'is', Piotr; 'might be'. It is the standard, but still only
> > one hypothesis.
>
> Here I was correcting your slip of the typing finger:
> the spirantisation fails AFTER, not BEFORE pre-Gmc. stops -- and,Spirantization (GL) fails after it (GL) applied? Please rephrase ...
> by the way, also after *s, which strongly suggests that we the
> prohibiting factor is a (post-GL) FRICATIVE, not a STOP.