Re: [tied] Re: Renfrew's theory renamed as Vasco-Caucasian

From: george knysh
Message: 50069
Date: 2007-09-25

--- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>
> > The Chinese 'dog' word, however, has cognates
> throughout Sino-Tibetan,
> > and so probably has nothing to do with the PIE
> word and any similarity
> > between them is fortuitous. I don't exclude the
> possibility of an
> > extremely old Wanderwort, but I prefer to suspend
> my judgement until
> > such time as PST reconstructions based on solid
> comparative work
> > become relatively stable and uncontroversial.
>
> Apparently you haven't suspended your judgement on
> whether they are
> related since you have already declared that 'any
> similarity between
> them is fortuitous'.
>
>
> Torsten

****GK: Typical Torsten (he of the 0000.1%
solutions(:=))) Brian said "probably" not
"absolutely".I suppose this is a difficult concept for
"sezme's". Have a great day BTW. No offense
intended.Just an observer's remark.****


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