Re: Re[2]: [tied] Re: Germanic Scythians?

>>>as long as it's independent in the several
> >> branches, elementary probability theory will tell you
> >> that it's unlikely.
>
> > And yet elementary linguistics tells you that in well
> > attested cases, it has happened.

> Obviously there's a continuum of likelihoods in different cases....
>Certainly the situation is very
> different in degree from the one that Torsten's proposal
> would require.

Ah, so your simple statement about "elementary probability" was a bit
jejune. It is not a simple matter of probabilities.

Peter