x99lynx@... wrote:
>
> My point of course was that neither Glen nor I can possibly know what
> was going on linguistically in Anatolia in 7500BC:
>
> I WROTE: (Tue Mar 18, 2003 11:03 pm)
> <<The fact is that what languages were present in 2000BC can tell you
> little or nothing about what was present or not present in Anatolia
> in 7500BC. You have no way of knowing how many times the situation
> changed in 5000 years.>>
>
> Steve Long
That is just a logical conclusion which doesn't help too much. On the
same basis you can change Anatolia with Cape Town. If the human being
wouldn't make exception from the rules of the nature, then a such
experiment should be seen as in the theory of gases or liquid's
dispersions. There is a spring where from something flows. From the
point of the spring everything should flow in equally measure in every
part of the environment. Depending on the environment now, there are
some resistances which disturb this circular, regular flowing.
Logically, the Estern of Europe seems to be the spring for the circular
flowing of the gas/liquid called IE-languages. But the human being
doesn't always follow the rule of nature, that is a point we shouldn't
forget. Therefore there is the possibility the spring of IE is somewhere
else. It remains to demonstrate that in this case the human nature went
in another way as the rules of the nature. How I said several times, I
pay attentions to myths too. And I do remember about a story which begun
as follow:
"It was once a king which have had 4 sons. For showing which is the best
of them, the father told them to go in the world and to bring him the
most precious thing they think it could be. And they went. One went
south, one went east, one went north, one went west...."
Of course I don't intend to tell you the story. Just the circular
flowing of the liquids and gases:-))