Re: Grimm ’s Law fact or myth: Gessman (1990)

> > This is the relevant paragraph in Gessmann's
> > article:
> > 'IMPLAUSIBLE PATTERN
> > The Germanic Consonant Shift, excluding Verner's Law
> > which operated at
> > a somewhat later point, does not fit into any
> > pattern of ch{'g. It is
> > impossible to blame an alien stratum for it - not
> > because no suitable
> > one was around (about this we know nothing) but
> > because the pattern of
> > the Shift itself is intrinsically incompatible with
> > the principles of
> > heterostratic modification. Let us have a closer
> > look what the
> > arsump{ion
>
> ARSE-SUMPTION --did you invent this word on purpose?
>

arsump{ion, to be coirrect.

> >of heterostratic induction of the Shift
> > would imply.
> blablabla . . .

I don't know nefarious purposes my ABBYY has in mind. It's Russian.
Maybe it's its attempt of being atheistically sacrilegious?


Torsten