Re: proof that most etymologies are only fairy-tales

On Aug 22, 5:18 pm, "Brian M. Scott" <b.sc...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I explain *bher- [...]

No, you don't.

Of course I do, and every homonym *bher-. PIE goes
backward in time, while I start from a long bygone past
and go forward in time, following the arrow of time,
which is the natural way of how the brain likes to work,
just consider mythology, all told in stories, and stories
always move along time. A good novel tells a story,
alas, many authors can't do it any more, they just line
up retrospectives, you are introduced to a number
of persons and must learn all about their background
in retrospectives, and when you know all about them
the book is over, nothing happened. You can claim
anything in retrospectives. The art of telling a story
is a challenge, also and especially in the historical
sciences. When you have to present the facts or
hypothetical events in the form of a story you will
recognize immediately what makes sense or not,
and where are gaps you can bridge, and gaps you
can't. Rendering an art historical thesis in the form
of a story, a fairy tale even, won me a price from
the university of Zurich, bestowed on me on the
dies academicus 1994, I sat in the first row, at the
other end a Nobel prize winner, and in the second
row a slim Indian professor who was and is engaged
in the fight against hunger on the Indian subcontinent,
he was the one who impressed me most on that day,
and to my big pleasure he won the Nobel prize in
economy a couple of years ago. Well, the art of
telling a story that won me the prize is also worthwhile
in linguistics: I present my reconstructions in the form
of fables, for they can only be realistic if they can be
told along the arrow of time, in a plausible story.
For example, all of the pyramidiots, Hankook et al.,
never tell their 'ideas' in a story, and if you try (I did)
it gets the most crazy story you can imagine. So telling
a story sorts nonsense from sense. My reconstruction
of the permutation group of BRI led me to BIR as fur,
especially the fur whereon a newborn was laid, and from
there I got easily to bear and brown and all the other
*bher- homonyms listed up by Mallory and Adams 2006.
PIE scholars could not possibly unite the homonyms;
I can. And then I found wonderful confirmation in
Shakespeare (the bearing-cloth and the bear in Act III
Scene III of The Winter's Tale, as explained in my
meanwhile killrated messages). While you undertake
no effort of defending the PIE etymology of bear.
Just a dark growling, so typical for you.
.

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