Re: Negation

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>
> On 2008-12-06 00:41, tgpedersen wrote:
>
> > Some article I read recently was head-scratching over 'dweep' and
> > 'twerp' with their rare initial consonant sequences. Wonder what
> > substrate future linguists will infer from those?
>
> Future substratologists will derive them from the same pre-IE
> substrate as <oink-oink> and <boing> (the "dwoing" language).

I love the smell of sarcasm in the morning. Preferably my own.
I'd like to think that those future substratologists would document at
least one case of **dwoi- before they merged two such substrates.
I know I would.


Torsten