Re: [tied] Re: All of creation in Six and Seven

At 6:11:59 on Friday, 21 November 2003, tgpedersen wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Glen Gordon"
> <glengordon01@...> wrote:

[...]

>> There's also little motivation for any IE speaker to
>> travel so far when they can simply trade with the people
>> around them. It's cheaper, it's easier and you don't get
>> killed in storms at sea that way.

> People on boats have stuff on board you can't get from
> your neighbor. Why don't you go down to the harbour in
> Vancouver and tell them to stop moving those containers on
> and off ships, since you can get everything easier,
> cheaper and safer in the USA and Mexico?

Why don't you learn something about how ancient
long-distance trade actually worked?

>> The remainder of your post had no scientific merit nor
>> anything to do with IE.

> By contraposition the rest of it did have some?

You might also look up 'contraposition' in a basic logic
text.

Brian