From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 39444
Date: 2005-07-26
----- Original Message -----
From: "etherman23" <etherman23@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 9:48 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: Short and long vowels
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham"
> <richard.wordingham@...> wrote:
>
> > The most important point is whether the correspondences agree. If a
> > pair of reconstructions can be manually transposed from one system to
> > the other, then all that is debatable is the phonetics.
>
> This is basically where Occam's Razor comes in. If multiple theories
> can explain the data then the simplest one is to be preferred.
***
Patrick:
Agree 100%!