Re: PIE meaning of the Germanic dental preterit

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

>
> At 7:00:25 PM on Tuesday, February 26, 2008, alexandru_mg3
> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > 'Frequency of use' to trigger or not the Haplology, is
> > another story :
>
> > 1. First, who should count, in our case?
> > 2. Next, where the threshold is? :)
>
> That's really a rather silly question. One grain of sand is
> not a heap of sand. Ten grains of sand is not a heap of
> sand. One hundred grains of sand is not a heap of sand.
> One million grains of sand *is* a heap of sand. Where is
> the threshold?
>
> Some things just don't have precise thresholds.
>
> Brian
>

Bravo Brian : I agree here...there are "some things" just don't have
precise thresholds...(but there are "some others" too...)

Marius


P.S. Only a small question:
What about 10000 "grains of sand"? is enough for "a heap"?