Re: dhuga:ter ('LARYNGEALS')

From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 55747
Date: 2008-03-23

----- Original Message -----
From: "Miguel Carrasquer Vidal" <miguelc@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2008 8:37 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: dhuga:ter ('LARYNGEALS')


> On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 11:41:00 -0500, "Patrick Ryan"
> <proto-language@...> wrote:
>
> >By the way, is it not suspiciously coincidental that the 'laryngeal'
> >theory
> >has three coloring agents that just happen to coincide with the three
> >attested vowels in PIE?
>
> It's neither suspicious nor a coincidence. It's just what we
> would expect.

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Flip answers are timesavers, to be sure.

Why do you not tell me why we should expect this in detail?

Frankly, I think you have no argument to establish that.



Patrick

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