Fallow Deer/A Closer Look

JoatSimeon at aol.com JoatSimeon at aol.com
Sat May 26 04:06:43 UTC 2001


In a message dated 5/25/01 5:16:39 PM Mountain Daylight Time, X99Lynx at aol.com
writes:

> Words never changed meaning back then, like they do now.

-- well, this is a little odd, considering your argument is that a langauge
spoken in 7000 BCE and spread over three-quarters of Eurasia was still so
undifferentiated in and around 1000 BCE that whole sentences from Celtic,
Italic, Greek, Slavic, Baltic and Indo-Iranian were still mutually
comprehensible.

Not to mention the names of deities, ceremonies and poetic kennings.

After 5000 years and 7000 miles of separation.

In which case, to account for their current degree of divergence, the Romance
languages must have started diverging around... when?  2000 BCE?

Or are words uncannily stable when it suits your argument, but change like
bandits when that's convenient?



More information about the Indo-european mailing list