At 11:39:32 AM on Saturday, April 26, 2008, kishore patnaik wrote:
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> From the above, two things I could clearly derive is :
> One, Mitannis are post Vedic (this is totally against your
> favorite German scholar MW)
I assume that you're referring to Michael Witzel. To the
best of my recollection, I have never expressed an opinion
of him. I have certainly never said anything that could by
any stretch of the imagination be taken to imply that he was
my 'favorite German scholar'.
> Second, there is no IIr as such.
Denying an indisputable fact merely makes you look ignorant.
So does your use of non-linguistic arguments to address a
question that is strictly linguistic. (It is therefore also
one that you are not competent to address.)
Brian