From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 62109
Date: 2008-12-16
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From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
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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.
>
> Your mother must have loved you very much.
>
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Not so much in fact,
but I cannot see the relevance.
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>> 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-
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> Obviously Semitic is a stopover on the way from the Far East.
>
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Eh alors ?
A.
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>> I see nothing compelling with the idea that "horns" are
>> half-circles or whatever.
>
> I am sure your mother would consider that statement compelling evidence.
>
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Well,
Horns are to be worn by cuckolds,
and I see no compelling evidence.
A.
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> Horns are considered to be a symbol of the crescent moon.
> Google 'bull' 'horn' crescent'.
>
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Horns can be straight and have plenty of different shapes,
I cannot see the relevance.
A.
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