IE and Substrates and Time

[Miguel Carrasquer Vidal]

JoatSimeon at aol.com wrote:

>>mcv at wxs.nl writes:

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

>-- not at all.  There's no basic intercommunicabilty of that sort between
>modern English and German.  OE and ON are structurally much more similar --
>they're both highly inflected, for instance.

OK, highly inflected.  Anything else to support your bizarre
assertion that Old English and Old Norse were as close as modern
Danish and Swedish?

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv at wxs.nl
Amsterdam