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

At 7:22:38 AM on Saturday, July 5, 2003, tgpedersen wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>
> wrote:

>> It is exactly the possibility of a visible sharp break
>> coexisting with continuous underlying change that you
>> professed not to understand. I've given you an example.
>> Apparently because it isn't exactly the situation that you
>> have in mind, you refuse to recognize (or at least to admit)
>> that the example in fact establishes the possibility. At
>> this point I consider it your problem, not mine.

> When did I profess not to understand "the possibility of a
> visible sharp break coexisting with continuous underlying
> change"?

See your final comment in message 23975. It clearly implies
that you do not accept the statement that '[t]he fact that
choice was made at a definite moment has nothing to do with
language's continuity over the time and does not imply any
fracture point in its' evolution'.


Brian