IE and Substrates and Time

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On Mon, 15 Mar 1999 JoatSimeon at aol.com wrote:

> In fact, Scandinavian, German and Old English were probably mutually
> comprehensible as recently as 1000 CE -- at least on an elementary level.

> Hmmm.  Well, perhaps we should limit that to Old English, Scandinavian, and
> Low German.

	I actually find myself agreeing with Joat ... what a concept.

					DLW