From: shivkhokra
Message: 70325
Date: 2012-10-29
>Nice joke. For a starter figure out how many years did "The William Jones" lived in India.
> At 12:02:13 PM on Friday, October 26, 2012, shivkhokra wrote:
>
>
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Francesco Brighenti"
> > <frabrig@> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> >> See again Witzel:
>
> >> http://azargoshnasp.net/history/Aryan/EJVS-7-3.pdf (pp. 58-59)
>
> >> [..] In sum, retroflexion affects all those moving into
> >> the E. Iranian borderland, the Indus plain and the
> >> subcontinent. but this does not work vice versa: those
> >> who move out of India, sooner or later, loose it.
>
> > I am afraid this is just plain uninformed. British did not
> > learn retroflexes even after staying in India for hundreds
> > of years.
>
> Oh, put a sock in it. The British never moved into India in
> the relevant sense, as I pointed out before.
>