Re: That old Odin scenario ...

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:

>
>
> --- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
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> > In this case, given that Proto-Slavic was spoken in the Kiev
> > culture, the ancestor language of that, spoken in Przeworsk and
> > Zarubintsy, would be Proto-Proto-Slavic
>
> ****GK: The Kyiv culture was a new beginning. It did
> not develop from either Przeworsk or Zarubyntsi,
> though it assimilated some carriers thereof.

But in that case, as a linguist I would like to know, how did the
people of the Kyiv culture go about building this new language,
Proto-Slavic? Did they appoint an academy to design a grammar and
construct a vocabulary from scratch, such as Arnaud has described for
the French and German languages, or did they arrive from New Guinea in
helicopters so as not to leave confusing archaeological tracks of
their migration, or perhaps some third scenario?

> But I suppose that for Torsten there is no problem in
> identifying a Germanic, Venetic, or Celtic dialect as
> "Proto-Proto-Slavic".

Well, as a linguist I would hesitate to do that, as I also would
hesitate to posit a language with no ancestors.

> Snorrists are very creative (:=)))*****

Hm. Wonder what George means by that. Now, 'snurre' means "whirl,
rotate" in Danish. Maybe he is trying to tell me something. Is he
secretely rooting for the helicopter option?


Torsten