>>211928222>Just about every Greek origin myth involves some sort of trick or quest that included the winning of a foreign soilMany myths (like the autochthony myth of Athens) are the opposite, they claim origin from the land itself, showing how malleable and contradictory origin narratives were in Greek culture.
>youre equivalently stupid if you suggest theres nothing to be correlated whatsoeverEnglish is spoken in Nigeria and India; Arabic is spoken by Berbers, Egyptians, and Arabs. Does that make them all one ethnicity? Language can be adopted through conquest, trade, religion, or prestige, it’s not a stable indicator of ethnic identity over time.
>your suggestion that PIE is a ‘model’ is completely spuriousPIE is a model. All reconstructions of unattested proto-languages are models, built using the comparative method, based on regular sound correspondences and theoretical reconstructions. PIE isn’t something we found on a tablet. It’s a scholarly reconstruction, just like cladograms in evolutionary biology.
Also, PIE is not uniform. Hence there's a joke amongst linguists that no language underwent more changes in the last century than PIE. There are multiple competing reconstructions (e.g., laryngeal theory, different root reconstructions, etc.). So pretending PIE is this fixed thing you can cite as hard evidence is incredibly naive.