Re: [cybalist] Example: Burushaski, a dialect or language?

From: John Croft
Message: 2183
Date: 2000-04-24

Marcus Prometheus wrote

> Please excuse me for intervening:
> (I am new to this list and a simple amateur of history, end not a
native
> english speaker)
> but I cannot understand the title of the table labelled:
> " % of divergence between any two languages "
> Might not it be labelled
> " % of CONVERGENCE (still existing) between any two languages " ?
> In this casethe figures found in the tabel would be correct
showing
100%
> convercence at the beginning (= no differientiation) and 0 %
convergence at
> the bottom of the list (= total differentiation)
> Thanks in advance. (Marcus Prometheus, Italian living in
Romania).

Thanks Marcus

You are correct. My error

Regards

John