From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 58591
Date: 2008-05-18
----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...>
>> > ***
>> >
>> > Patrick:
>> > Your cockamamie rule that *e:/*a:/*o: must appear in _all_ phonological
>> > contexts to qualify as phonemes is your personal fantasy.
>> >
>> > To analyze *e: as anything but *e + *e is clearly ridiculous to
>> > everyone
>> > but you.
>> >
>> > ***
>>
>> Analyzing e: as eH1 is standard,
>> I did not invent it,
>> I just think it's right.
>
> ***
>
> Patrick:
>
> Mauvais, mauvais.
>
> PIE *e: is produced by a theoretical *eH1. *e: = *e + *e; *eH1 = *e + *H1.
>
> Your misunderstanding the simplest matters is, de facto, invention.
>
> ***
PFF...
It 's not hard to see who does not understand the simplest matters.
These last days, you are really breaking new records in abysmality.
Arnaud
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