IE and Substrates and Time

[Miguel Carrasquer Vidal]

JoatSimeon at aol.com wrote:

>>mcv at wxs.nl writes:

>>In the case of late OE / late ON it's often said that the two languages were
>>"very close" and mutually intelligible. >>

>-- they were intelligible at the level of pointing at a house and saying
>"house" and both parties understanding the word.  Saying the equivalent of "Me
>burn house." would also probably get across.  Roughly the situation with
>Swedish and Danish today, in other words.

No, *much* further apart.  More in the neighbourhood of French
and Spanish, English and German.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv at wxs.nl
Amsterdam