Re: The proto-religion of the PIE

From: Arindam Banerjee (adda1234_at_bigpond.com)
Date: 06/14/04 

Date: 14 Jun 2004 15:47:22 -0700

ybg@theworld.com (Yusuf B Gursey) wrote in message news:<222ae656.0406131635.2fa46783@posting.google.com>...
> adda1234@bigpond.com (Arindam Banerjee) wrote in message news:<890e65ea.0406130015.2c7e4086@posting.google.com>...
> > ybg@theworld.com (Yusuf B Gursey) wrote in message news:<222ae656.0406101338.468c13c8@posting.google.com>...
> > > adda1234@bigpond.com (Arindam Banerjee) wrote in message news:<890e65ea.0406061830.7b2a803a@posting.google.com>...
> > >
> > >
> > > > > > In our view, the other way around. Persia got its cultural stuff from
> > > > > > India, through a process of induction, and since the roots could not
> > > > >
> > > > > minor later contacts aside, the evidence against this is overwhelming.
> > > > >
> > > > > see:
> > > > >
> > > > > http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~witzel/EJVS-7-3.htm
> > > > >
> > > > > (thanks to Ranjit Mathews)
> > > >
> > > > I saw it, and found nothing to convince me of the "overwhelming
> > > > evidence". If you think there is any, just give it in point form. I
> > >
> > > there is no point in redoing a detailed work, but a simple linguistic
> > > point made is that of the presence of retroflex consonants in indic
> > > and the lack of them in other IE. assuming an "out of India"
> > > hypothesis would ential something like air rushing into a small hole
> > > rather than out of it. i.e. a highly unlikely, near impossible,
> > > process.
> >
> > An opinion, just. Basically, what I see today is that people outside
> > India still cannot speak properly. The "aryan" words they use are
> > pronounced very badly; when they came to India those words were spoken
> > better. So, the barbarians getting better theory works, if they
> > really ever spoke better they would not have degenerated to this
> > extent.
>
>
> this is the most subjective argument I ever heard.
>
> I won't bother to respond.

Very good. I will however conclude that there are languages and
languages, some are superior like the Sanskrit-derived modern Bengali
language, and others like English are inferior. So, it is easy to
translate the best poems of the best English poets (Browning,
Shakespeare, Shelley) into Bengali, just as it is easy to translate
Fortan-2 to C++. However, translating Tagore into English is
practically impossible - that is a process I called "transcreation"
following the terminology of Prof P Lal.

Arindam Banerjee.

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