Re: Why do Pokorny's roots for water have an "a" in front?

At 7:55:12 PM on Monday, December 10, 2012,
Bhrihskwobhloukstroy wrote:

> It's apparent that reconstructable phonology has had an
> impressive rising of its rate of change in the latest
> millennia (at least up to the Middle Ages included).

It is?

> Please don't put every Continuity Theory into the same
> slot; the extreme possibility to be taken into
> consideration is a PIE diasystem (in fact a very
> differentiated lexical one, just as one would expect, but
> with extreme conservativism at *reconstructible*
> phonological level, i.e. plosives, not liquids or
> vibrants) encompassed a whole linguistic history from
> Palaeolithic to Chalcolithic

'Because nothing can (still) exclude it' is insufficient
reason to consider seriously something that is so clearly
incompatible with what we can actually observe of linguistic
change.

Brian