[tied] Re: Creole Romance? [was: Thracian , summing up]

> > My brain must be an outdated model, it can't follow you
> > here.
>
> Or won't. Look at a straightforward analogy. Irish
> spelling shows a sharp break at some point in the 20th
> century (sorry, but I forget the exact year); Irish
> pronunciation doesn't. The choice to reform the spelling
> was made at a specific point in time; the changes that
> prompted the reform were gradual and took place over
> centuries.
>

In this case there was no 'downward sequence' of progressively
creolized versions, therefore threre never is. Non sequitur.

Torsten