>From: Sally Caves <scaves@...>
>Subject: Re: French syntax (was: Italian Particles)
>
>Yes, Christophe... thank you! I'm almost done with a set of "macaronic"
>verses that I'm trying to set to song. I wanted a sad, sort of
>contemplative song in Teonaht, English, and French, about the fall of Babel,
>and human incommunicability. The final refrain is "what are saying to me
>in your language?"
What a cool idea!
>Oh sigh... if only I were Deirdre DuBois.
Long live the subjunctive mood!
>From: Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...>
>Subject: Re: Eastre & *Aus-
>
>PS - Can any IndoEuropeanist on the list confirm (or deny) that it is
>reasonable to assume an PIE *a:ws- (dawn, east), and:
I think it was *a:wes- (but I'm not sure if the e would be important)
>- that this root was extended with a suffix -o:s to give protoGreek *a:wso:s
http://members.xoom.com/piestudies/
lists a form *Hues-o:s with the laryngeal (at least, I assume that's what all
those weird H's on the page are).
>From: bjm10@CORNELL.EDU
>Subject: Re: Celtic, semitic, etc.
>
>I had a biology prof. who adhered to the "Basques are Neanderthal
>survivors" theory. Of course, he was also in the _Homo sapiens
>neanderthalensis_ camp.
Did he mean to say Basques are (or had been) Neandertals, or merely speak a
Neandertal language?
>From: Padraic Brown <pbrown@...>
>Subject: Re: Celtic, semitic, etc.
>
>>>Picts! Picts! ;-)
>>
>>Nah - not the painted people ;)
>
>Have they ever been firmly classified even? I have heard
>variously that they were a) Q-Celts b) P-Celts c) Iberians
>d) some other kind of pre-IE European e) something else
>altogether. I'ld imagine that there's too little of the
>language to know what the deal is.
There are some untranslatable Ogham inscriptions listed on
http://babaev.newmail.ru/archive/article07.html
that he says are probably Pictish.
(I wouldn't have the faintest idea where to begin with something like
"idbmirrhannurractkevvcerroccs".)
>From: Tim Smith <timsmith@...>
>Subject: Re: Pre-Celtic substrate (was: CHAT: RE: R: Italian Particles)
>
>From: Barry Garcia <Barry_Garcia@...>
>Subject: Various chatter (short messages all in one pop....)
>
>>May whatever is Holy save us from comparative mythologists and their
>>attempts as philology.
>
>I always got a kick out of it whenever he would compare words from
>unrelated language families and come up with false relationships. I so
>wanted to dispute it, but i liked the class too much to do that ;)
Heh. If I had known those kinds of things back then, I wouldn't have let my
teachers get away with it, no matter how much fun I was having. (Some won't
be corrected anyway. I had a Spanish teacher who pronounced 'refrigerador'
with /g/ and I don't know why.)
*Muke! (last day of school before exam week!)
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