From: Piotr Gasiorowski Message: 68509 Date: 2012-02-08
W dniu 2012-02-08 22:00, stlatos pisze:
> If words looking slightly dif. w slightly dif. meanings were never
> connected, we wouldn't have modern linguistics.
Well, we wouldn't have it if we worked with "opt." sound changes and
arbitrary metatheses all the time. Etymology would still be "une science
où les voyelles ne font rien et les consonnes fort peu de chose".