Re[6]: [tied] IE *de:(y)- 'bind'.

At 5:03:43 AM on Sunday, May 15, 2005, Patrick Ryan wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Brian M. Scott<mailto:BMScott@...>
> To: Patrick Ryan<mailto:cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2005 11:57 PM
> Subject: Re[4]: [tied] IE *de:(y)- 'bind'.

> > Patrick wrote:

> <snip>

> > Any given *CVC is 76/19ths more likely to be a root
> > aorist than a root present; i.e. 400%.

> Brian:
> And any given verbal root is 600/130 times as likely to be a
> root aorist as to be a root present (on the basis of the
> figures available here); that's a little over 460%. In
> short, the probability that a given verbal root is a root
> aorist goes *down* slightly if we know that it's a *CVC
> root: the probability that a root chosen at random from the
> 730 verbal roots under consideration is 600/730, or about
> 82%; the probability that a root chosen at random from the
> 95 *CVC roots is a root aorist is 76/95, or 80%.

> ***
> Patrick writes:

> Do you not mean:

> "the probability that a root chosen at random from
> the 730 verbal roots under consideration (added) IS A ROOT
> AORIST is 600/730, or about 82%;
> ???

Indeed. In context that seems clear enough, despite the
unfortunate typo.

The rest is face-saving that requires no response.

Brian