From mnemonician@hotmail.com Sun Sep 30 07:50:04 2001 Received: from mailscan1.cac.washington.edu (mailscan1.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.16]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.11.6+UW01.08/8.11.6+UW01.08) with SMTP id f8UEo3N70686 for ; Sun, 30 Sep 2001 07:50:03 -0700 Received: FROM mxu2.u.washington.edu BY mailscan1.cac.washington.edu ; Sun Sep 30 07:49:59 2001 -0700 Received: from hotmail.com (f93.law11.hotmail.com [64.4.17.93]) by mxu2.u.washington.edu (8.11.6+UW01.08/8.11.6+UW01.08) with ESMTP id f8UEnxu23222 for ; Sun, 30 Sep 2001 07:49:59 -0700 Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sun, 30 Sep 2001 07:49:56 -0700 Received: from 206.130.170.10 by lw11fd.law11.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Sun, 30 Sep 2001 14:49:56 GMT X-Originating-IP: [206.130.170.10] From: "S S" To: classics@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: On the Dispilio (mystery) tablets ... a PS Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 14:49:56 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 30 Sep 2001 14:49:56.0323 (UTC) FILETIME=[2BAA0B30:01C149BF] "J. S. Philobiblos" wrote: >"I can imagine that such a >thesis would belong to the school of extreme Greek cultural chauvinism that >also >denies that proto Indo-european exists... Now, I hope that nobody decides to put words in my mouth or misconstrue my intention... but, I was under the impression that the proto Indo-European origin theory was just that... a *theory*, one that lacks any conclusive evidence for its establishment. Has there been any hard evidence produced for the existence of proto-Indo-European, aside from relatively recent conjectural linguistics? Have there been any discoveries of inscriptions etc., in the so-called proto Indo-European `language'? Exactly how and when did the proto Indo-European theory develop? Sincerely, Sotiris Sotiropoulos _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp .