Re: apples on a stick

I thought superglue and bouche de mer were obvious
jokes --the first one funny, the second one a bit
tactless since it seemed directed to Arnaud in that it
was in his language.
Arnaud has a lot of interesting things to say when
he's not over reacting. He just needs to mature a bit,
Pat too. We all need to realize that disagreement is
not hatred. How many of you agree 100% with your
family members? None, so how can you expect a perfect
stranger to agree with you all the time. If you don't
lighten up, your karma will run over your dogma and
turn you into a sail-cat.

BTW: Mr. Etherman on Nostratic-L was talking about
aspirated unvoiced stops in IE possibly being part of
a substrate and that they are (mainly?) limited to
Gmc, Baltic, Greek and Indo-Iranian, if I'm quoting
him correctly.
What do you have to say about this?


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

> At 4:51:06 AM on Wednesday, December 19, 2007,
> Francesco
> Brighenti wrote:
>
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan"
> > <proto-language@...> wrote:
>
> >> If Arnaud seriously thinks anyone could
> linguistically
> >> connect Akkadian _supurgillu_ and English
> _superglue_,
> >> then perhaps this is not the place for him.
>
> > Sorry to point this out, but I checked the
> archives and I
> > found that it was _you_, not Arnaud, who
> (unnecessarily)
> > introduced by joke the supurgillu :: superglue
> comparison.
>
> We know this. Patrick made a joke based on the
> superficial
> similarity between <supurgillu> and <superglue>, and
> because
> Arnaud seems to have taken it a bit too seriously,
> he is now
> wondering how anyone with any knowledge of
> linguistics could
> fail to recognize it as a joke.
>
> I actually thought that it was rather funny. The
> 'merde de
> bouche' comment that followed it was much less so
> and was
> probably the main reason for Arnaud's explosion; we
> could
> have done without it.
>
> > Therefore, your remark quoted above is highly
> misleading.
> > Why do you attribute that absurd lexical
> comparison of
> > yours to poor Arnaud?
>
> He doesn't.
>
> Brian
>
>
>

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