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Re: Introducing myself to the list

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Tuesday, June 20, 2000, 20:28
"Thomas R. Wier" wrote:

> [T]hey say that it isn't a choice > between two theories which explain the data with the same explanatory > force, but rather between one (the traditional one) that can be shown to > have attested phonological reflexes in Greek, Latin and Sanskrit
And never mind its synchronic preposterousness (voiced aspirated but not unvoiced aspirated, b rare instead of p)? -- Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis um dies! || John Cowan <jcowan@...> Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau, || http://www.reutershealth.com Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau, || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Und trank die Milch vom Paradies. -- Coleridge (tr. Politzer)