Re: Nordwestblock, Germani, and Grimm's law

> > > Occam would love me. So much explained from so few entibus!
> > > Whatever extra in the sociology/ethnology department has to be
> > > accepted would have to be assumed to explain the distribution
> > > of *kaN-t-, and further *saxn- (vel sim).
> > >
> >
> > Hmmm. It seems you're not counting insufficiently estabilish'd
> > sound laws and propagation pathways as "assumptions"? And you'll
> > need a ton of both to make those complexes work.
>
> Naah, I'll just claim they're wanderwords and then claim the same privilege for them of exemption from that stuff that they enjoy.

What privilege where? I'm not aware of any that require a handful of idiosyncratic innovations every other step.

(Wanderwords, unlike your complexes, also come with narroly defined semantics related to some specific technological innovation.)

John Vertical