Re: Germanic Scythians?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>
> To: "tgpedersen" <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 2:31 PM
> Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Germanic Scythians?
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> >> [Torsten:] Objection: IE spread. Therefore all the known IE

languages may have substrates.

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> > [Brian:] Producing the same change in several branches

independently? It doesn't matter much what triggered the change; as
long as it's independent in the several branches, elementary
probability theory will tell you that it's unlikely.

T: You realize of course that the same argument might be used against
the occurence of laryngeals in PIE?

Torsten