Re: Guitar teetering

Dušan Vukotić wrote:
On Aug 1, 8:12 am, Harlan Messinger
<hmessinger.removet...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The modern linguistics sticks too much to the sound laws and regular
phonetic changes in order to prove the relatedness among different
words.
And you interpret that as license to invent relationships without evidence.

It became a kind of "scientific" lunacy, because there are rare
(if any at all) phonetic laws that could be applied strictly, without
a great number of exceptions. For instance, you cannot take a
reduction (syncope) of the English word husband or Serbian gospodin
(gentleman, lord; Lat. hospita) to guest and host
Of course not, since neither "guest" nor "host" came from "husband" or
"gospodin".

(Srb. gost guest,
gazda host)as a general rule, simply because there is no enough
similar examples. Finally, if you need phonetic rules to understand
that host/guest comes from hospit, then something is terrible wrong
with your reasoning.
Neither "host" nor "guest" comes from "hospit", though all three are
related. "Host" comes, quite simply, from "hostis". "Guest" doesn't come
from Latin.

I am trying to enlighten your mind and broden your horizon,

By telling me things that aren't true? Wow.

> but it
> seems - all in vain. You obstinately adhere to your folly, and refuse
> to think more profoundly.

It's folly not to pay attention to someone who can't get his story straight when purporting to be laying out a derivation?

Latin hospes -pitis has the both meanings "host" and "guest" (in
addition, friend, stranger), but I didn't say that Germanic "gast" or
Slavic "gost" sprang from the Latin hospit-.

You wrote, "Finally, if you need phonetic rules to understand that host/guest comes from hospit ...." I'll add this to the list of things you can't remember having just written.

Latin hostis is a
syncopated form of hospitis,

According to my sources, that's not how it worked. I'll save you a step: if you're going to respond, "Open your mind to another possibility", my response will be, "where is the evidence for that other possibility?"

similar as it happened in Slavic (Serb.
gazda host; from gospod lord => gasbad => gazbda => gazda).
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    ... that host/guest comes from hospit, ... I am trying to enlighten your mind and broden your horizon, ... If the process of agglutination is ONE of the first steps, it implies that there were other steps, not that only agglutination occurred. ... we're talking about ordinary language evolution long after the birth of spoken language. ...
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    ... gazda host)as a general rule, simply because there is no enough ... that host/guest comes from hospit, ... Slavic "gost" sprang from the Latin hospit-. ...
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