IE and Etruscan

[maher, johnpeter]

Good old G-bock was honest.  Privately -- to me --Hamp only said: VG's data
seem to work, but oughta have more.

pete

Jim Rader wrote:

> Nearly twenty years ago I heard Eric Hamp give an account of
> Georgiev's lecture.  As I recall Hamp telling it, Georgiev thought
> that Etruscan practically WAS Hittite,

RIGHT: this is what I remember.

> i.e., that Etruscan was an
> Anatolian language.  The audience didn't contest his thesis out of
> sheer stupefaction, not because they agreed.  Gueterbock walked out
> of the lecture shaking his head and saying "Very interesting, very
> interesting!"
>
> Jim Rader

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