Re: Another Essentialist Explanation: PIE
| From: | Joe Hill <joe@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, March 3, 2002, 19:01 |
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Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 9:04 PM
Subject: Re: Another Essentialist Explanation: PIE
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 06:10:19PM -0000, Joe Hill wrote:
> > PIE is essentially Latin spoken by klingons.
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> On the contrary, PIE is essentially Greek written in the Latin alphabet
> with all the theta's transcribed as <dh> and a fair sprinkling of <w>'s
>
mmmm...dh isn't really theta, it's /d_h/, or an aspirated /d/.
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