Re: [tied] Gmc. Place-names & the Pas-de-Calais [was: Transhumance]

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Piotr Gasiorowski"
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
> To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 1:26 PM
> Subject: Re: [tied] Gmc. Place-names & the Pas-de-Calais [was:

Transhumance]

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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
> <piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:
>
> >> ... what's so impractical "to say the
> least" about having two groups with the same name, especially if

they live

> at a safe distance from each other?
>
> > Yes, but that was the point: Apparently most of the participants

on

> the English landnám crossed the Channel at Calais. In other words,

it

> was perfectly possible for someone in one lifetime to have been near
> an *X-inga-ham both in the Pas-de-Calais and in England, and perhaps
> even inside them both, if you were one of those *inga-s yourself.
>
> Still hardly impractical; the worst threat here is _potential_

(rather than

> actual) ambiguity. But people don't worry about such things more

than they

> do about accidental homophony (<tale> : <tail>).
>

But these are _fighting_ groups; they'd need some IFF to
avoid 'friendly fire'. Having the same name in a potential conflict
situation is _not_ a good idea. Me, it'd worry.

Torsten