From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 62107
Date: 2008-12-16
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From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
>> >
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>> I don't understand "much worse" ?
>> Could you comment on that ?
>>
>> A.
>
> That the situation is much more complicated than we would like it to
> be. My personal guess is that what we see is a transfer of some idea
> of how the world is run (a.k.a. 'religion' and 'geometry' and
> 'physics' in other contexts).
> Try searching 'Torsten' and 'bull' in the archives.
> (You don't need to comment that line. Rick)
>
> Torsten
>
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Well, we can make everything complicated thru lumping everything together
and then admire the huge awesome mountain thus created.
I'm not sure this is a scientific method.
The relationship between *kor-nu- "horn" and *ker-H2-w "head" may be an
illusion.
If *kornu is a LW from Semitic *qarnu, as it seems to be,
then we got something interesting.
And Semitic itself is from *qar-
I see nothing compelling with the idea that "horns" are half-circles or
whatever.
Why should a horn not just be a horn ?
A.