reality of PIE

[petegray]

Thanks for your patience, Larry, with what might seem a tedious debate.  I'm
happy to concede that I have overstated (or even grossly overstated) the
point I was trying to make, and you seem happy with the idea that
genetically related languages can derive from different varieties of the
same language.  (I hope that's a fair statement?)

Is that a good place to draw stumps and quit the field?

Peter