Re: The harvest of suppressing evidence

At 4:11:18 AM on Monday, August 10, 2009, tgpedersen wrote:

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

[...]

>> = Germanic spread due to the arrival into Germania in the
>> 1rst c. CE of "Romanized Sarmatian deserters" who had
>> largely forgotten their Iranic speeches, and used "some
>> version of Latin for everyday purposes". (This is what
>> enabled them to become leaders of the Germanic tribes and
>> creators of the genuine Germanic languages.)

> Apart from the fact that you don't create languages, at
> most you make them literate languages by inventing an
> alphabet and the rudiments of a grammar (from observation
> of the spoken language), yes, that's what I think
> happened.

The idea that PGmc. developed from the speech of people who
used 'some version of Latin for everyday purposes' doesn't
pass the laugh test.

By the way, it's rather obvious that George was using
'creators of' as a shorthand for 'the people whose speech
developed into'; a language has a grammar irrespective of
whether it's a written language or any attempt has been made
to describe that grammar; and one doesn't need an alphabet
to have writing.

As long as I'm wasting my time, what evidence do you imagine
to have been suppressed? If you say 'Snorri's', you're
merely displaying your continued profound ignorance of
medieval studies.

Brian