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[Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>]

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Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Mar 9, 2010, at 10:09 AM, berlant AT advanced-studies.org wrote:

> I was wondering if anyone here would care to refute or support my
> hypothesis that the widespread, Afro-Asiatic verb for interpreting
> PTR --- which, AFAIK, has never been resolved -- could have been
> derived from the equally widespread (1) bi-consonantal verb for
> opening PT, and (2) the mono-consonantal word for seeing R, thereby
> identifying interpreting with having one's sight -- hence, eyes --  
> opened.
>
> Thanks very much in advance for any "in-sight" anyone can give me
> into the pro's-and-con's of this hypothesis.
>
> Steve Berlant
>
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