From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 29315
Date: 2004-01-09
----- Original Message -----
From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 1:26 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Gmc. Place-names & the Pas-de-Calais [was: Transhumance]
--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:
>> ... what's so impractical "to say the
least" about having two groups with the same name, especially if they live
at a safe distance from each other?
> Yes, but that was the point: Apparently most of the participants on
the English landn�m crossed the Channel at Calais. In other words, it
was perfectly possible for someone in one lifetime to have been near
an *X-inga-ham both in the Pas-de-Calais and in England, and perhaps
even inside them both, if you were one of those *inga-s yourself.
Still hardly impractical; the worst threat here is _potential_ (rather than
actual) ambiguity. But people don't worry about such things more than they
do about accidental homophony (<tale> : <tail>).
Piotr