Re: Lost in the mists of time...

From: Richard Herring (junk_at_[127.0.0.1)
Date: 07/20/04 

Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 10:04:13 +0100

In message <890e65ea.0407191418.51d164a5@posting.google.com>, Arindam
Banerjee <adda1234@bigpond.com> writes

[irrelevant xpost removed]

>Richard Herring <junk@[127.0.0.1]> wrote in message
>news:<CCGIsRT5T5+AFw67@baesystems.com>...
>> In message <890e65ea.0407181611.7b99c7c1@posting.google.com>, Arindam
>> Banerjee <adda1234@bigpond.com> writes
>> >Richard Herring <junk@[127.0.0.1]> wrote in message
>> >news:<lo$h2TGKkm7AFwFW@baesystems.com>...

[...]

>> When you've finished with the cheap-shot selective quoting,
>
>But there was no other way I found I could agree with you on anything.
>
>> perhaps
>> you'd like to consider answering the question you have so conveniently
>> snipped?

Just as a reminder, the questions (actually two) in question are:

'what do you think you mean by "phonetic" and "non-phonetic" languages?'

and

'Are the "pure sounds", from which you allege that 'phonetic languages'
are composed, absolutely identical in every context, regardless of what
"pure sounds" precede and follow them? '
>
>Perhaps, yes; but as a matter of fact, no. For I know a much better
>person for that purpose, who knows far more than I on issues related
>to speech and education in phonetic and non-phonetic languages.

But it's *you* who have been pontificating on the subject. It's up to
you to justify your claims.

> I am
>referring to my wife, Mrs Durba Banerjee; I have been merely the moon
>to her sun, in whatever I have been writing on this thread. She has a
>First Class (Honours) degree (rarely awarded) in English literature
>from Presidency College (Calcutta University) and a First Class degree
>in Bachelor of Education from Delhi University.

And none of this is of any relevance until she posts here. Since the
qualifications you list don't appear to include linguistics, phonetics,
phonology, they are of precious little relevance even if she does. 

-- 
Richard Herring