From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 61086
Date: 2008-10-29
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From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
> Venetic, as we know it and as it has been named, is either an Italic
language or a language closely related to Italic ("Italoid" is a term
I've seen used).
> In naming conventions, the oldest usage of the name usually applies,
even when it is later determined to be wrong later on --e.g. there are
arguments regarding the identification of Olmecs with historical
Olmecs, and of Tokharians with historical Tokharoi.
> So if you're are applying Venetic to something else than the
language spoken in NE Italy, you need to distinguish it.
No can do. There's an old tradition for calling unclassified bits of
language from Central Europe Venetic; I follow that, or rather I
follow its speakers themselves in calling them Veneti, whether they
live on the Adria, on the Baltic or somewhere in between. You'll have
to tell from context.
Torsten
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Yes,
we have all noticed you are a nominalist fetichist,
claiming that words that look alike must refer to only one referential
reality.
but this is not acceptable,
Before you start putting everything in the same one bag,
it would be nice to explain why the premice should be accepted,
before we proceed to any additionnal layer(s) of speculation.
Arnaud