Re[2]: [tied] Verner’s Law could be a result of interfamilial conta

From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 57433
Date: 2008-04-16

At 6:17:23 PM on Tuesday, April 15, 2008, mkelkar2003 wrote:

[...]

> If Vener's law is contact induced then it cannot be
> relevant to the reconstruction of PIE. Therefore Grimm's
> law which it is supposed to explain

No, it isn't.

> cannot be relevant to the reconstruction of PIE. And
> therefore Germanic langauges also cannot be relevant to
> the reconstruction of PIE.

This is quite possibly the most moronic sequence of non
sequiturs I've seen so far this year.

Brian