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  • WV: crible -- too many hours with Aperture science puzzles.

    A Womb with a View 2009

  • Here's a quote from Yves Duhoux on pages 223 of L'étéocrétois (1982) talking about Gordon's views and his poor grasp of linguistic methodology despite university education: "L'hypothèse sémitique ne nous paraît, dès lors, pas moins (ni plus) respectable que toute autre - mais elle doit, comme les autres, passer au crible de la critique (ceci deviendrait, sous la plume de GORDON 1975, p.158: 'blind denial is no more scientific than blind acceptance')."

    Archive 2008-04-01 2008

  • Here's a quote from Yves Duhoux on pages 223 of L'étéocrétois (1982) talking about Gordon's views and his poor grasp of linguistic methodology despite university education: "L'hypothèse sémitique ne nous paraît, dès lors, pas moins (ni plus) respectable que toute autre - mais elle doit, comme les autres, passer au crible de la critique (ceci deviendrait, sous la plume de GORDON 1975, p.158: 'blind denial is no more scientific than blind acceptance')."

    Some random thoughts on Proto-Aegean languages 2008

  • Moreover, the crible continue à grilles filtrantes, the invention of MM.

    The Land of Midian 2003

  • Son corps percé comme un crible, verse un grand ruisseau de sang.

    Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois George Chapman

  • C'est un feu roulant qui crible le sanctuaire de toutes parts ...

    Baron D'Holbach : a Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France Max Pearson Cushing 1918

  • C'est un feu roulant qui crible le sanctuaire de toutes parts ...

    Baron d'Holbach Cushing, Max Person 1914

  • Moreover, the crible continue à grilles filtrantes, the invention of MM.

    The Land of Midian — Volume 1 Richard Francis Burton 1855

  • This man, crible de dettes, as he told me, and daily compelled to adopt the most extravagant methods for a bare subsistence, had repeatedly approached me with adventurous schemes for the exploitation of my notorious fiasco.

    My Life — Volume 2 Richard Wagner 1848

  • Similarly, also the only Virelay …, Un crible plein d’eaue – A Dieu vos comant, owes much to the motet.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Lu 2009

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