Re: [tied] Re: Renfrew's theory renamed as Vasco-Caucasian

At 4:57:07 AM on Sunday, September 30, 2007, tgpedersen
wrote:

>>> As a koine, Runic was hardly older than the the use of
>>> runes.

>> If the early runic inscriptions do represent a NWGmc.
>> written koine, as suggested by Makaev, then the spoken
>> dialects had obviously already at least begun to diverge,
>> and the written koine very likely *was* more conservative.

> Runic would be an elite language, and the masses spoke
> creolized versions of it, if at all.

Oh, your usual hobby-horses. Never mind, then; I shan't
waste my time.

Brian