From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 61027
Date: 2008-10-21
On 2008-10-21 17:43, mkelkar2003 wrote:
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> Ok. So which homeland is Lubotsky trying to defend?
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> Now, which homeland is Witzel trying to defend?
None. They are discussing linguistics, not politics, ideology or
territorial defence. Please don't try to turn any discussion of
Indo-Iranian vocabulary into a "homeland war". In particular, as regards
the PIE homeland question, _absolutely nothing_ hangs on the question
whether <a:tar-> and <átHarvan-> are related or not. If Pinault is right
and <átHarvan-> is a substratal word of Central Asian origin, so be it.
It proves nothing about PIE and its geographical range. If the words
were somehow related, that would be equally irrelevant. I have passed
your message only to point out that the questions are meaningless in the
context of Francesco's posting. Neither I nor the other moderators will
pass any more messages in which the poster's contribution consists of a
bare link, a long quotation with a one-line comment, or a couple of
rhetorical questions. Please keep that in mind.
Piotr