Re: Vamos a hablar claro

Dušan Vukotić wrote:
On Jul 24, 1:58 pm, Harlan Messinger <hmessinger.removet...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dušan Vukotić wrote:
Quite casually, Spanish returned Latin fumus to its oldest form (hum-), though with the silent /h/.
So now you agree that Spanish "humo" came from "fumus", which is
what I said in the first place. Then all of the rest of this "dim"
business had nothing to do with that.

Go back and read my posts again: I never denied the Latin to Spanish (f => h) sound change.

You, 18 July: "In case of fumo and humo, we cannot say that f => h sound change is impossible. On the contrary, but in this specific instance (fumo => humo) such a process seem to be hardly feasible."

In all this time, I've been trying to tell you that Latin fumus
originally started with the /h/ initial sound.

Either you brought this up pursuant to your remark that I've quoted above, or else it was never relevant to my response to your another remark by you on 18 July that "I wouldn't say that the Latin f to Spanish h sound change is so 'obviously evident'." I gave you a substantial list of words showing its evidence. That was the topic. Everything you've written about "dim" since then either has been intended to dispute "fumus" > "humo", or else it has been irrelevant to the Latin f > Spanish h issue and therefore I don't know why you've "been trying to tell" me this.

I'm trying to decide whether you really can't remember from one moment to the next what your position is on any given issue, or whether you change your position whenever you realize it truly is impossible to maintain the one you started with and you're just hoping I won't notice the change.
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