From: tgpedersen
Message: 50163
Date: 2007-09-30
>I'm still waiting for a counter-argument. Likewise.
> 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.