And you studied Ugaritic only in its cuneiform orthography?===== Original Message From Peter Kirk <peter.r.kirk AT ntlworld.com> =====
Trevor, I think you are failing to appreciate properly the field of
comparative linguistics.
How so? Do you seriously think I could have studied Ugaritic without it?
Perhaps more intelligent than some, but there are a lot of problems in this area. To make intelligent use of the comparative data cited in a lexicon, you have to take it as a hint, a suggestion, a proposition that may or may not be correct. You don't just accept the connection and go on with life. ...Well, fools turn the best data into folly (is that in Proverbs somewhere?), but the intelligent always take this kind of data with a pinch of salt. Anyway, if it isn't obvious already, Bennett teaches you to do so.
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