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my first thought on seeing this was, ye gods, just what does a boy
have to do to get a drink around here? i mean, crawling back into the
cradle might be a good idea if i really wanted to put out like the
caveman but i've one eye on that blue remembered hill and the chinese
investment in US bonds...
tacitus took only what was useful
Roger
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I was a bit sceptical about this (and haven't yet digested the article that
Jon references in his URL -- it looks on the face of it a nice summary of
Indo European, but what would I know?) but when Roger and dave come over as
linguistic neanderthals.... <g>
Linguistic paleography is fairly well-established, and tracing sound changes
back may be fuzzy at the edges, and gets fuzzier the further back you go,
but it's still more reliable than predicting the stock market.
You two will be denying the reality of the Great Vowel Shift next.
Robin Reliant
On 1/15/06, Jon Corelis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> There's a complete explanation at http://www.bartleby.com/61/8.html.
> Here's
> the basic part of it:
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> A characteristic feature of Indo-European was the system of vocalic
> alternations termed apophony or ablaut. This was a set of internal vowel
> changes expressing different morphological functions.
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