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From: "Bob Bazemore" <bazemore@massmed.org>
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Subject: Re: On the Dispilio (mystery) tablets ... a PS
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 11:12:01 -0400
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And may I recommend Calvert Watkins' Dictionary of Indo-European Roots,
Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 2000 with a fine introduction and explanation and
his How to Kill a Dragon, Oxford U. Press, 1995.

Bob Bazemore


----- Original Message -----
From: "J. S. Philobiblos" <info@caratzas.com>
To: <classics@u.washington.edu>
Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2001 10:55 AM
Subject: Re: On the Dispilio (mystery) tablets ... a PS


> Let us not start all over again. I  seem to remember that a kind member of
the
> list already recommended Cambell's excellent and accessible book on
historical
> linguistics.
>
> C. Caratzas
>
> S S wrote:
>
> > "J. S. Philobiblos" <info@caratzas.com> 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...<snip>
> >
> > 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
> >
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