Re[4]: [tied] From here to eternity [was: *y-n,W- "subordinate"?]

At 4:02:36 PM on Thursday, November 20, 2008, Arnaud Fournet
wrote:

> From: "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>

>>> I don't buy a word of this. They were obsessed with the
>>> fact they were mortal and unfortunately very short-lived
>>> when the gods were immortal.

>> Somehow I don't feel the slightest inclination to prefer
>> your mindreading of people who have been dead for millennia
>> to the clear linguistic evidence.

> This is not my mindreading

> but the standard theory about mrtos and n-mrtos
> which you have deleted from the previous message.

The meanings of the words are not in question; your claim
that they were 'obsessed with the fact that they were
mortal', however, is mindreading.