Re: [tied] Reconstructing a future language

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, CeiSerith@... wrote:

> In a message dated 2/4/2003 9:20:20 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> piotr.gasiorowski@... writes:
>
>
> > Or you may compare selected features of languages to determine

their

> > similarity, and you may conclude that, e.g. Greek is more similar

to PIE

> > than Sanskrit is (or the other way round, depending on the

features being

> > compared).
>
> And that may well be true. I object to the implication that

because this

> is found through the algorithm that necessarily shows some sort of

bias on

> the part of linguiststs. Perhaps it rather shows that Latin (or

Greek) are

> more conservative than other languages.
>
> David Fickett-Wilbar

Ahem.

Torsten