> You are taking 'ancestor' in a strict technical sense, which was clearly not my intention. Blutly, this was not obvious, and what you suggested would have be

> You are taking 'ancestor' in a strict technical sense, which was clearly not my intention. Blutly, this was not obvious, and what you suggested would have been equally true if you'd said: Learn Lithuanian. You were writing in a descendant language just now. If you learnt the roots, you would understand the descendants better. Because Lithuanian has about as much in common with PIE as Sanskrit does.