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

My countryman Homer Simpson asks at what point do
languages diverge? It's just too arbitrary.
I understand minor Romance languages that I've never
studied much better than I understand non-standard
British English, not to mention Jamaican, Scots and
what not.
When did French and Italian diverge? As soon as they
first started showing differences, or when they ceased
to be mutually conprehensible.


--- george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:

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> --- "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:
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> 79% retention
> > corresponds
> > to a time depth of a little over 3800 years, and
> 72%
> > retention to one of a little over 5300 years.
> This
> > is
> > obviously nonsense.
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> > Brian
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> ****GK: To the simpler among us what is even more
> nonsensical is the notion that languages "diverged"
> aeons before they came into existence as distinct
> entities (e.g. "French" in 1,000 BC ? (:=)))****
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