Re: file searching/vista help

[Caballero Carlo.Caballero@xxxxxxxx]

On Thu, 24 Apr 2008, Patricia M. Godfrey wrote:
> investigate Proto-Indo-European roots?
> Just possibly because scholars are suspecting that it's quite difficult to
> reconstruct PIE. I recall a co-worker, of Lithuanian extraction, telling me
> that Lithuanian was the closest modern language to PIE, and that was why the
> OED (the 1933 ed., which despite its descriptivist principles remained
> stanchly prescriptivist in practice) so often cited Lith. in the etymologies.
> I don't necessarily believe her, but...
If you want to get into an "interesting" argument, give that account to a
Latvian, who will tell you Latvian is closest. Then go inland from Riga
to someone who still speaks a certain Lettish dialect....

Cheers,
Carlo
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