Re: PIE *a -- a preliminary checklist

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:

It would be helpful if the greater than signs (>) were used to show
who wrote what. That makes it easier to add inter-linear comments
where appropriate.

> Joupe wrote:
>> I want to draw your attention as the moderator to this opponent
>> Arnaud.
> ===========
> "opponent" ??
> why not "enemy" ??
> Arnaud

Because 'enemy' implies a personal conflict, whereas I would hope that
your aims are to establish the truth, rather than merely to score
points off one another.

>> It is difficult to overstate how much off-mainstream his Proto-Uralic
>> is and there is not one proper Uralist around (including me) to
>> discuss it, because the forum is of course on Indo-European.
>> Jouppe
> ============
> Why not assert that the study of human genetics
> should exclude any study of other living beings ?

I think Jouppe is saying that we are short of people who can talk
authoritatively on Uralic languages. Actually, we have several
academics here who have made some study of Uralic languages, though
apparently generally with a view to the possibility of a genetic
relationship between Uralic and Indo-European.

Richard.