Re[2]: [tied] Germanic

At 6:13:28 PM on Thursday, August 30, 2007, Rick McCallister
wrote:

> If Germanic goes back to 8000BC, then please account for
> the fact that Germanic langauges were mutually
> comprehensible until c. 1000 AD.

I doubt that that's true, unless you're using a very loose
definition of mutual comprehensibility. But ~500 CE ought
to be pretty safe, and the objection to Arnaud's suggestion
isn't materially weakened by reducing the gap from 9000 yr.
to 8500 yr.

Brian