Re[3]: [tied] Indo-Uralic?

At 11:32:14 AM on Sunday, February 17, 2008, fournet.arnaud
wrote:

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> *gWneH2 cannot exist as a word.
> Orality must have been [guneH2]
> or [gneH2] with [w] erased.

Why? I can pronounce [gWnex], for instance. Don't forget,
there is no [w]; [gW] is just a labialized velar.

Brian