From: george knysh
Message: 31609
Date: 2004-03-30
> >*****GK: One never demands that a grownup using
> > GK: Note that the Przeworsk culture was
> > constituted in the 3rd c. BC and evolved from the
> > fusion of various elements: Jastorf + "local"
> > (varieties of Late Lusatian) + La Tene. The
> prevailing
> > view today is that Przeworsk was fundamentally an
> East
> > Germanic (eventually Vandalic) complex, in which
> the
> > Celtic and "local" components dissolved. So both
> of
> > your possibilities ( (1) and (2) above) seem to
> > involve Germanic influencing Germanic.
> >
>
>(T) First, let me say that I appreciate that you have
> chosen to use
> arguments this time like a grownup, Western European
> style instead of
> demanding I be silenced.