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I certainly don't think that all Western IE roots are to be reassigned to the Aegean family, but I'm reasonably sure that in our ignorance of Minoan and related languages, Minoan history and "Pelasgian" substrate in Greek, there is definitely a noteworthy portion of words stemming from the eastern Mediterranean that are misassigned to PIE in overeagerness, thereby obscuring the linguistic past, exaggerating the importance of one group over many others.

Archive 2010-03-01 2010

I certainly don't think that all Western IE roots are to be reassigned to the Aegean family, but I'm reasonably sure that in our ignorance of Minoan and related languages, Minoan history and "Pelasgian" substrate in Greek, there is definitely a noteworthy portion of words stemming from the eastern Mediterranean that are misassigned to PIE in overeagerness, thereby obscuring the linguistic past, exaggerating the importance of one group over many others.

Suspicious IE roots, possibly deserving our scorn or maybe not 2010

Thus any adjectival value assigned to this word such as 'Etruscan' must be rejected at once, even though this happens to be the most common value misassigned to this term!

Archive 2009-06-01 2009

Thus any adjectival value assigned to this word such as 'Etruscan' must be rejected at once, even though this happens to be the most common value misassigned to this term!

Contradictions with authors' accounts of Etruscan word Rasna 2009

Bryson's focus on the quirks and interplays of scientists is fascinating, because it reminds you above all that science is a human study; while technically science should only be about the theorems, realistically it's rife with petty politics, pig-headed people clinging to outdated ideas (some of them former brilliant scientists themselves), groundbreaking ideas revealed half a century before their time that were completely ignored, critical evidence that was overlooked, and misassigned credit.

Perhaps The Finest Picture Ever Taken Of Me nuala 2006

Which leaves open the question of why, just after having done so, I misassigned it to Nights.

languagehat.com: THE AMBIENCE OF WORDS. 2004

I think that parents understand that the school's, in some ways, an extension of the home, and they don't want the school to be a place where their children will be ignored, misassigned, treated like

Left Back: A Century of Failed School Reforms 2000

C. elephantopus, nine Galápagos tortoise individuals of substantial conservation value were previously misassigned to extant species of varying conservation status

PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Michael A. Russello et al. 2010

C. elephantopus enabled the identification of nine Galápagos tortoise individuals of substantial conservation value that were previously misassigned to extant species of varying conservation status.

PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Michael A. Russello et al. 2010

C. elephantopus enabled the identification of nine Galápagos tortoise individuals of substantial conservation value that were previously misassigned to extant species of varying conservation status.

PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2010