cross-linguistic metaphors (fwd)

[Rory M Larson]

David wrote:
> Jimm, let's be very cautious about linguistic details here.  At least in 

> Lakota, and I assume for the other languages as well, ska 'white' is a 
> very different word from s^kaN.  ...

As Bryan indicated, he and I are responsible for the confusion here, and 
Jimm was cautioning us in the same vein as David.  I think we are all 
agreed that ska 'white' and s^kaN 'movement' are very different words. 
Bryan and I were discussing the question of whether what seems to be -ska 
in some less well-understood compounds could in fact be a misunderstanding 
of some other morpheme, possibly related to s^kaN.

Part of the confusion may be due to our lazy habit of including the entire 
preceding conversation in our replies.  In this thread, I've seen a 
paragraph I wrote commented on by Bryan, whose message was then replied to 
by another poster whose system removed Bryan's formatting and made my 
paragraph that he was replying to appear to be a part of his message, 
which then agglutinated with many more.  When John Koontz was active, he 
used to scold us frequently for this practice.  It uses up server space 
unnecessarily, and it puts the same text into the Siouan Archives again 
and again and again for word searches to pull up equally many times.  In 
posting, we should all try to pull out only the quotes we are actually 
replying to, and remove the rest.  (I sometimes forget to do this too.)

Cheers,
Rory
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