> As you take refuge, once again, to offensive language for lack of > pausible arguments I quit discussion with you and your nonsense. Ask > accomplished Arabists about your 'ain - ghain rubbish. Get a life, > buddy. As Americans say- No pain, no ghain. But it is interesting to see "lutes as foreign imports, in China", ain't it? RT
______________ Roman M. Turovsky http://polyhymnion.org/swv > > "danyel" <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: >> Leather is tanned and elastic and thus unsuitable for use as a membrane. >> The *rwd* theory is not my pet but borrowed from E. Neubauer who is well >> versed in Middle Persian (we are not talking Farsi here) and historic >> Arabic; there are plenty of examples of the 'ain sound being hardly >> distinguishable from the ghain in Arabic dialects and it seems that the >> Middle Persian could have had an indifference towards the articulation of >> the "r", as in German, where the rolled "r" was replaced by the French >> laryngal. The word rwd is used in the sense of string even in Farsi, cf. >> Tarab-rwd. Anyhow, I am not myself qualified to discuss linguistics, just as >> you are not qualified to discuss organology: you cannot even tell apart a >> lute from a skin-covered gourd with a stick up its ****... > > snip... > -- > Regards > > Mathias > > -- > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
