Re: International Conference on the Phaistos Disk

On Oct 8, 2:25 pm, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Of course it is. When Tocharian was discovered, did the existing PIE
model fit it perfectly? No. So the model was altered to deal with the
new data.

So PIE failed that test, at least partly? And now
that the Tiryns disc has been deciphered, there
is one more alteration required: Sseyr as Middle
Helladic form of Zeus is nothing like the predicted
or rather retro-dicted *dieus. I explain it as emphatic
form of TYR meaning: he who overcomes, in the
double sense of rule and give. PIE, this time,
needs a complementary approach from below,
a new method that helps clear and stabilize the
vague PIE forms and offers a clear concept of
early language during the Ice Age. The good news
is: Magdalenian and PIE go together fairly well.
But of course some things must change, linguists
will have to develop a sense for visual messages
of the past (cave art, reliefs on the pillars of the
Göbekli Tepe), quasi-algebraic operations on
phonemes won't do anymore as only means of
reconstructing early language. On the other hand,
there are plenty new insights to gain.

I assure you, if I had the slightest interest in the PD, I would read
DO's book.

But I don't, so I won't.

A funny statement by the editor of The World's Writing
Systems.

There are several dozen crackpots fulminating about the PD at any one
time. If DO's book is the answer, why does the fulmination continue?
(Similarly, of course, for the books of the two monomaniacs who
constantly post on it here.)

Ohlenroth is writing a highly demanding language,
and; as I said many times, I do not at all agree with
his historical and archaeological interpretations.

Pot, kettle, black. You have no business complaining about _anyone's_
quantity of posting.

Say this to yourself. I don't complain about the
other posters - until they complain about me.
.

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