tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1918995924244969903.post5890476349623035723..comments2024-03-25T08:41:57.698+13:00Comments on Kiwi Hellenist: Mythbusters Jr. on Odysseus’ axesPeter Gainsfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17448862214081111386noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1918995924244969903.post-55904584299713388052019-10-16T11:58:08.521+13:002019-10-16T11:58:08.521+13:00I wasn’t quite clear, sorry. My thoughts of ulteri...I wasn’t quite clear, sorry. My thoughts of ulterior motivation referred to why <i>at all</i> use this book from 1828 in the year 2019.<br /><br />When a modern-day Northern Macedonian ponders (even if only tentatively) derivation of Proto-Slavic from Greek, it does raise a few suspicions. We know the relationship between these two modern countries during the recent decades—particularly in Timonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1918995924244969903.post-18275673366082462522019-10-13T09:54:27.938+13:002019-10-13T09:54:27.938+13:00I completely agree. I took the moderate tone that ...I completely agree. I took the moderate tone that I did in my reply simply because I couldn't find direct evidence of the ulterior motives that we can normally expect in this kind of topic -- either in the book, or in Dankovszky's biography. I lack the skills in Hungarian to track down anything about the modern reception of his obsolete notions.Peter Gainsfordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17448862214081111386noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1918995924244969903.post-79336535690897330072019-10-11T06:07:06.872+13:002019-10-11T06:07:06.872+13:00Amongst all the good etymologies the book has ther...Amongst all the good etymologies the book has there are a lot of bad ones which are not that much better than deriving ἄνθρωπος from ἀναθρῶν ἃ ὄπωπεν or <i>cadauer</i> from <i>caro data uermibus</i>. It <i>very</i> rarely pays to use sources this old for etymology. Often there seems to be an ulterior motivation when using old materials of this kind.Timonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1918995924244969903.post-52222583435896043762019-10-08T13:41:32.538+13:002019-10-08T13:41:32.538+13:00I haven't, but from what I follow of the autho...I haven't, but from what I follow of the author's argument, the basic idea is that the Slavic languages show signs of derivation from Greek. No present-day historical linguist would hold to that view: any syntax, morphology, and roots that Dankovszky found which are genuinely related, would nowadays be understood mostly as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognate" rel="nofollow">Peter Gainsfordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17448862214081111386noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1918995924244969903.post-87049245192831408912019-10-08T04:59:01.278+13:002019-10-08T04:59:01.278+13:00Did you ever get a chance to read this - https://b...Did you ever get a chance to read this - https://books.google.mk/books?id=Dg9CAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq&fbclid=IwAR17AsUOpgqgyt5-wNTliQXN_dc2azltdQhYNz2qb7ZqwsTc4v-suNald1Q#v=onepage&q&f=falseRistohttps://www.facebook.com/Risto.Jaueskinoreply@blogger.com