Re: Latin -idus as from dH- too

It was an observation not a criticism per se.

I have nothing against enlightened nationalism.

I am not a bigot; I do not disseminate propaganda.

I understand more about 'laryngeals' than Saussure ever could and so do we
all because of the research that has gone on since he proposed his ideas.

His theory enabled us to understand what was observed in Hittite
particularly.

But he was right and he was wrong. Right that there was a now not visible
consonantal element that affected the length of vowels; but wrong when he
thought it 'colored' vowel quality.

The present 'larnygeal' is a theory that is more like a sieve than a bowl
because it has so many weaseling exceptions.

It is simply wrong; and no less a personage than Winfred Lehmann encouraged
me to continuing developing ,y alternative explanation for the phenomena.


Patrick

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Patrick Ryan
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> And you are a nationalistic Frenchman.
>
> My scholar - right or wrong!
>
> Patrick
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> As mentioned by Rick
> Saussure is Genevois (not French)
>
> The next point is
> My country - right or wrong
> is English motto
>
> As regards French motto, it'd more
> My country - most often wrong.
>
> But you may be too bigoted to
> understand that citing somebody
> is not necessarily propaganda.
>
> Considering your dinosaur-age approach
> to laryngeals, it might help if you read him
> as a first step toward present time.
>
> Arnaud
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