From: Torsten
Message: 65762
Date: 2010-01-27
>Well, if I had one, I wouldn't have the time for such diversions.
>
>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Torsten" <tgpedersen@> wrote:
> >
> > > > > The gen. of Etr. <lautn> is <lautnes>. The late-archaic
> > > > > Tile of Capua has <lautun> not <lautn> because its
> > > > > orthography does not allow syllabic resonants. The
> > > > > dyslexic form <lavutn> (for *lavtun) occurs in a funerary
> > > > > inscription. Anyhow, try not to confuse variants of the
> > > > > zero-case with the genitive.
> > > >
> > > > I'll pass that admonishment on to Glen Gordon
> > > > http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/5297
> > > > or perhaps the Bonfantes.
> > >
> > > Don't bother. You can't rehabilitate shoehorn freaks like GG.
> >
> > Too bad he's not around anymore. You and he would have very
> > interesting and entertaining discussions over that.
>
> Yes, and the catfights over methodology would probably get both of
> us banished from the group. I heard Mr. Gordon has some kind of
> linguistic blog now, but I don't have time to slog through the bog
> of a blog.
>
> > > The Bonfantes are usually reliable and I wonder whether they
> > > have been cited accurately here.
> >
> > Only one way to find out.
>
> Yes, and if I had a job, I could afford to take regular trips to
> the state university to look at recent publications.
> I had an interview today, but the outfit wasn't hiring. They wereStay clear of linguistics, oh unfortunate one! It ruins the brain. People can smell it. They won't hire me either.
> just filling lists for possible future hiring.
> Too bad I can't get a job like your old one, traveling aroundActually I sitting on my chair all the time, trying to make sense of the spelling of 40 year old cadaster lists and varying alternative spellings of lunatics claiming zoning law compensation, earning myself the title 'matrikelpave' or "cadaster czar" in the process.
> learning about place-names.