Re[2]: [tied] Re: Renfrew's theory renamed as Vasco-Caucasian

From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 50125
Date: 2007-09-29

At 1:06:22 AM on Saturday, September 29, 2007,
fournet.arnaud wrote:

[...]

> English and German were different languages as early as
> - 2500,

This is obviously impossible, both linguistically and
historically.

> if you recalibrate glottochronology erosion rate, to avoid
> having French and Italian split as late as in the XV
> century.

So you substitute one absurdity for another, when the
problem is obviously with glottochronology itself, or at the
very least with the naive version that you're using.

Brian