IE and Substrates and Time
JoatSimeon at aol.com
JoatSimeon at aol.com
Wed Mar 24 19:50:14 UTC 1999
>mcv at wxs.nl writes:
>Anything else to support your bizarre assertion that Old English and Old
>Norse were as close as modern Danish and Swedish? >>
-- speakers of those languages tell me that they can, with considerable
difficulty, by concentrating hard and repeating often, understand basic
phrases, but can't really carry on a conversation. That seems to have been
roughly the situation with OE and ON by the 11th century.
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