From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 55554
Date: 2008-03-20
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From: "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 10:39 AM
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re:Re: Re: Re: Re: [tied] Re: dhuga:ter
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> From: Patrick Ryan
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> Now please listen. I am going to tell you something valuable.
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> 1) citing "correspondences" as you did above is _not_ providing data;
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> you need to present several examples of these relationships, or refer to
> another source where they are systematically listed if you wish to
> abstract the conclusions from the data;
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> I suppose my unorthodox theory
> is most likely to exist nowhere,
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> But if somebody wrote something on how
> to compare Basque, PIE, Salish, PAA, Kartvelian,
> Uralic, Chinese, Eskimo-Aleut, North caucasic,
> and Yenissei
> using orthodox phonetic correspondances,
> I'm grateful for the reference.
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> Arnaud
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> 2) going about it in a non-disciplined way results in faux pas like
> suggesting <szb> in one post, then <ts-dz-b> in the next.
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> It's not a faux-pas
> I wrote *s_z_b because it was more simple
> and required less explanation.
> You can call this a surface-format
> a deeper reconstruction is *ts_dz_b.
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> Dhe: in Pokorny is not a faux-pas
> it's just an old-fashioned format
> that we now prefer writing *dheH1
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> And I think in Thirty years from now
> nobody will write that
> to sew in PIE was *syw or *sywH1.
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> Arnaud
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> ***
> Voulez-vous coucher avec moi - is timeless until we add
> ce soir.
> Patrick
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> I suppose this is not a serious proposal
> and to make things clear, with you,
> It's : "non, j'ai pas envie."
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> "Voulez-vous" is clearly Present time.
> and "coucher" is "plain infinitive"
> And without any indication of time,
> the implied meaning is "right now"
> or "as soon as it becomes possible".
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> You're very conservative.
> These things don't necessarily happen
> only after the last prime-time commercial,
> Some people do it any hour of the day.
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> Arnaud
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