From: Rick McCallister
Message: 58402
Date: 2008-05-08
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "P&G" <G.and.P@...>Sorry, dude, but you haven't shown anything. I just
> wrote:
> >
> > > Grimm's Law, the `Germanic Consonant Shift," has
> evaporated.
> >
> > I seldom bother reading MKelkar, but happened to
> read this.
> >
> > At one level, Grimm's Law is simply a factual
> description
>
> The languages are factual. Grimm's Law is not. It is
> theory of what
> could have happened.
>
>
> of the
> > relationships between certain Germanic sounds, and
> other sounds in
> other PIE
> > languages. That relationship cannot "evaporate".
> I suspect, then,
> that
> > what is meant is that a particular theory about
> the origin of those
> > realtionships has evaporated, and the author
> cannot think of any
> other to
>
>
> That is partially correct. Grimm's law has
> evaporated in Gessman's
> (1990) view and not the languages which are
> collectively labeled as
> "Germanic" by Indo European linguists. The languages
> like Enlgish and
> German are facts but "Germanic" languages is not a
> fact and so is PIE.
>
> The author has proposed another explanation through
> interaction with
> local "substrates."
>
> > replace it. And MKelkar has taken this as proof
> for his ideology.
> >
> > It all reminds me not to bother reading MKelkar.
>
> You never did in the fist place. There was not a
> single word in that
> post written by me. From my long presence here, what
> I have found is
> many members are not able to take an objective view
> of anything
> perhaps because they are used to taking subjective
> reconstructions as
> factual description of history.
>
> M. Kelkar
> >
> > Peter
> >