From: Bhrihskwobhloukstroy
Message: 68639
Date: 2012-02-29
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Bhrihskwobhloukstroy
> <bhrihstlobhrouzghdhroy@...> wrote:
>>
>> It was several yeras ago (my alias was bhrghowidhon@...)
>> I have no difficulty in believing that all of Pokorny's and
>> Mallory-Adams' (and LIV's) roots can belong to a single protolanguage
>> and I think that the Germanic words for 'bear' and 'horse' are neither
>> younger nor older of the ones found in other IE classes: they are all
>> ultimately "common IE".
>> I too consider the tradition PIE model as inadequate. I'd like to
>> replace it with a model without language replacements and with just
>> one tree, but with a couple of dozens of branch-crossings. So, a very
>> strongly genealogical - but in noway binaristic - model, where there
>> must have existed at least 500 diatopically differents branches of PIE
>> still in PIE phonology from Atlantic to China along 40 millennia. This
>> is an external linguistic model, it doesn't affect the etymologies,
>> where the only principle is: 2140 PIE roots, 100 suffixes and five
>> ablaut grades regularly generate 11,449,000 BILLIONS of perfect
>> formations, where one can always find the best etymology for every
>> historically attested word or noun
>>
> I'm afraid your model not only is unrealistic but also a RACIST one,
> because language replacement processes have existed all throught the
> history of mankind, although History is always written (and often also
> rewritten) by the winners. This is why the languages of the losers are
> forgotten and the memories of their existence erased.
>
> To put an example I know of, in towns were Spanish is spoken since a few
> centuries ago such as Pamplona, many people would say no other language
> was ever spoken there, when historical records tell us the contrary.
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