From: tgpedersen
Message: 61090
Date: 2008-10-29
>What's that?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> 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
>
> ==========
>
> Yes,
> we have all noticed you are a nominalist fetichist,
> claiming that words that look alike must refer to only oneI do?
> referential reality.
> but this is not acceptable,What premise?
> 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.