Formally Correct False Reconstructions (was: Dates of IE and A-A)

From: Richard Wordingham
Message: 69717
Date: 2012-06-01

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

> You remind me of a cartoon quoted by Renfrew where Caesar's soldiers
> were drinking beer and smoking cigarrettes at a café. Hint: these
> things were introduced at a later date but yet they've got common words
> in Romance languages.

But what proto-Romance forms can we reconstruct?

Richard.