Re: Fr/lat/ru tu-vous/tu-vos/ - : etymology ?

Franz Gnaedinger wrote:
On Oct 2, 8:14 pm, Harlan Messinger
<hmessinger.removet...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[incredible mass of non-sequitur logorrhea snipped, none of which has
anything to do with why people would have stopped using particular words
to refer to their right and left sides if they in fact used them originally]

(By and by, anthorpomorphism and zoomorphism
were replaced by technical metaphors. Some people
understand, others don't)

I understand it fine, it's just that as usual I don't see why you think random imaginings constitute evidence for what actually happened, and all I see is a lot of retrofitting of one ad hoc explanation on top of another for a theory that has many, many more holes than it fills.
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