>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
Thanks Mathias, I second that emotion! Michael Thames www.ThamesClassicalGuitars.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mathias Rösel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lutelist" <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2005 5:14 AM Subject: Re: parchment, rwd and ch'in (Re: LUTE-etymology) > 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. > > "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 >
