Re: Re[2]: [tied] Germanic

Supposedly the Anglo-Saxons and the Danes understood
one another, and the samples of the Pater Noster on
websites all seem close enough to one another --I'm
guessing the dates for those are between 500-1000


--- "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:

> At 6:13:28 PM on Thursday, August 30, 2007, Rick
> McCallister
> wrote:
>
> > If Germanic goes back to 8000BC, then please
> account for
> > the fact that Germanic langauges were mutually
> > comprehensible until c. 1000 AD.
>
> I doubt that that's true, unless you're using a very
> loose
> definition of mutual comprehensibility. But ~500 CE
> ought
> to be pretty safe, and the objection to Arnaud's
> suggestion
> isn't materially weakened by reducing the gap from
> 9000 yr.
> to 8500 yr.
>
> Brian
>
>
>

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