[tied] Re: Creole Romance?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>
wrote:

> At 10:49:36 AM on Thursday, July 3, 2003, tgpedersen wrote:
>
> > Formally Dutch and Flemish (if you want to see them as
> > different languages) are Low German dialects, thus
> > dialects within the German continuum, whereas Danish etc
> > etc (no one will get this point anyway).
>
> I'm only surprised that you're willing to make that point,
> since it undercuts your claim that the peculiarities of
> Danish phonology are a deliberate attempt to obfuscate the
> language _for_Germans_.
>

But the development p,t,k > B,D,G happened in the 13th century, when
the distance between the languages was much smaller.

Torsten