Re: Sin once more

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "indravayu" <sonno3@...> wrote:

>
> > > I was being a smart ass (which you didn't seem to catch in my
> > > earlier post) –
> >
> > You haven't read Kuhn, although you said you did?
> > No, I didn't catch that one.
> > Is that what passes for sarcasm in your country?
>
> I HAVE read some of Kuhn's articles! I also regularly come across
> citations of his work.

Would you pleas explain in what sense you were being a smartass?
I didn't catch it?

> > > I knew tat Kuhn had proposed a non-Celtic language for the
> > > Belgae; I think he is sorely mistaken
> >
> > Perhaps you ought to read his articles before you pass judgment.
>
> See above.
>
> > > (and yes, perhaps a bit daft – at least when it comes to Celtic
> > > linguistics).
> >
> > But Kuhn has never uttered a word about Celtic linguistics.
>
> LOL - what the hell are you talking about??? How much Kuhn have YOU
> read??

Several years ago, I OCR'ed 41 of the articles of his Kleine
Schriften, plus 'Das letzte Indogermanisch', plus the
'Dreimännerbuch', which I've all read at least once, the more central
ones several times.
Search in the archives
Kuhn Torsten und : 175 hits
Kuhn Torsten ist : 62 hits
which reflects (at least partially) my habit of quoting him in German.
Further, I'd like to point out that beside Hachmann's and Kossack's
contributions in the 'Dreimännerbuch' on the archaeology of the area
in the relevant period, I read Peschel too, which I translated pieces
of for George when it turned out that, in spite of his pronouncement
that there could not have been any factual foundation for the claims
of Snorri and Saxo of events in Germania at the time, he had no
knowledge of the actual (pre)history of that area.
How about you?
And in which article have you found his statements about Celtic
linguistics?


Torsten