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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:
> When did French and Italian diverge? As soon as they
> first started showing differences, or when they ceased
> to be mutually conprehensible.
When they stopped making common innovations to the Swadesh word
list/when they started making independent innovations.
Unclean breaks make such questions unanswerable.
Actually I can get a few per cent divergence within Standard English
if I accept the meanings of the word list as constituting a word list
for Standard English.
Richard.