Rant of a linguist

[yakalskovich]

First, the Germanic tribes were suddenly all Celts.

Now, the Celts are suddenly Germanic...

**shakes head**

For me, what counts is the language people speak, as evidenced by old place names if we're talking historic tribes. What's so difficult about all this?

By the way: Farsi (=Persian) is an Indo-European language. Persians (and Kurds, the former Medes), are not Arabs. The languages aren't even structurally related.-