Re: Nordwestblock, Germani, and Grimm's law

From: Torsten
Message: 65719
Date: 2010-01-21

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, johnvertical@... wrote:
>
> > > > Assuming of course that these are not wanderwords from *Lun,-,
> > > > cf the thread in
> > > > http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/10861
> > >
> > > Occam would puke.
> >
> > Occam would love me. So much explained from so few entibus!
> > Whatever extra in the sociology/ethnology department has to be
> > accepted would have to be assumed to explain the distribution of
> > *kaN-t-, and further *saxn- (vel sim).
> >
>
> Hmmm. It seems you're not counting insufficiently estabilish'd
> sound laws and propagation pathways as "assumptions"? And you'll
> need a ton of both to make those complexes work.

Naah, I'll just claim they're wanderwords and then claim the same privilege for them of exemption from that stuff that they enjoy.

> (You might even see this yourself if you bothered to chart out each
> and every step of the developments you propose.)

Sorry, try some other ploy ;-)


Torsten