Re: [tied] Re: Anatolian

At 11:18:16 PM on Saturday, October 22, 2005, mkelkar2003
wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, glen gordon
> <glengordon01@...> wrote:

>> Your thinking is muddled. Yes, there never was a
>> single PIE language.

> Then why bother

> 1. reconstructing it and
> 2. Locating the supposed homeland based on the
> reconstructed language.

It appears that your understanding of Glen's views is no
better than your understanding of Meillet's. Either that,
or you think that because French, say, is not homogeneous,
there is no French language.

>> No, there _is_ a PIE 'homeland'.

Brian