Re: Hercynian (again)

At 7:21:28 AM on Wednesday, February 29, 2012, Tavi wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Bhrihskwobhloukstroy
> <bhrihstlobhrouzghdhroy@...> wrote:

[...]

>> I too consider the tradition PIE model as inadequate. I'd
>> like to replace it with a model without language
>> replacements and with just one tree, but with a couple of
>> dozens of branch-crossings. So, a very strongly
>> genealogical - but in noway binaristic - model, where
>> there must have existed at least 500 diatopically
>> differents branches of PIE still in PIE phonology from
>> Atlantic to China along 40 millennia. [...]

> I'm afraid your model not only is unrealistic but also a
> RACIST one,

Don't be ridiculous.

> because language replacement processes have existed all
> throught the history of mankind,

True, but irrelevant to the silly charge of racism.

> although History is always written (and often also
> rewritten) by the winners.

Actually, it *isn't* always written by the winners, though
certainly this is very, very often the case.

Brian