User talk:BbBrock

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Thank you for answering my question

I wanted to say thank you for bothering to answer my question on the reference desk with avulsion, you gave me the information I requested. Next time I'll just stick to the questions and not explanations. — Preceding unsigned comment added by CensoredScribe (talk • contribs) 18:23, 3 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

PIE

Like I said, I haven't read Fortson, but I do recommend the Burgess, and Mallory's In Search of the Indo-Europeans. There are many other helpful books. Skeats' Etymological Dictionary of English is free online, as it is in the public domain. There's also a lot of stuff available by Winfred P. Lehmann on line in the public domain. That will be very technical, and won't make much sense if you don't at least have a familiarity with Greek or Latin and/or another branch like Slavic. Tom Shippey has a great etymological dictionary of English. But I'd really recommend Calvert Watkins' second or third (third is best) Amer. Heritage Hist. of PIE Roots. Cheap and a great read, and under 200 pages, with cultural notes and an great prefatory sketch. Bet you can get the 2nd ed. for a penny at Amazon, plus $20 shipping (or less).

If you are serious, register an email address with WP and send me an email. I can then respond with a bunch of pdf texts.μηδείς (talk) 21:03, 28 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks μηδείς, you have been very kind and helpful. I haven't ordered any books yet (I'm going away for a few days tomorrow, and I like to time my deliveries for when I'm home) so I will change my choices to your recommendations. I have just registered my e-mail address with WP, but to be honest I don't know where to find others' email addresses. Once again thanks very much for your help. BbBrock (talk) 18:51, 29 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

You would go to that person's talk page, and click "email this user" which you will probably see on the top left of the page, under the tools heading. μηδείς (talk) 19:35, 29 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I have sent you two emails, one from yahoo, then the other from gmail since the yahoo account kept crashing. Both have attachments, make sure you check your spam if you don's see them and please respond to the yahoo account, since I check that regularly, and the gmail one only if I am warned something is coming. You should find the Google attachment interesting. μηδείς (talk) 01:22, 30 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Moving posts

Hello. I moved your post to the Language reference desk, and replied to it. The way to move a post is to simply delete it and repost it where necessary, ideally making that clear with edit summaries or notes on one or both pages. --Theurgist (talk) 12:38, 15 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]