Re: Mother of all IE languages

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham"
<richard.wordingham@...> wrote:

> > Whatever its shortcomings, the Gray/Atkinson technique is
> > not an example of statistical inference, so your comment is
> > inapplicable to it. It isn't even applicable to
> > glottochronology, which -- however useless -- didn't
> > pretend that a Swadesh list was a random sample or try to
> > derive characteristics of the lexicon from it.
>
> While on the whole I agree with Brian, there are some problems

with

> the Swadesh list. They became apparent when I was drawing up some
> lists. Some pairs of words on it are often cognate ...

I forgot 'here', 'there' and 'when', which are often related
to 'here', 'there' and 'who'.

Richard.