From: tgpedersen
Message: 27495
Date: 2003-11-22
> At 6:11:59 on Friday, 21 November 2003, tgpedersen wrote:They didn't put stuff on board ships? Pray tell.
>
> > --- 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?
>I stand corrected.
> >> 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.
>