From: george knysh
Message: 42027
Date: 2005-11-10
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh*****GK: My "own logic" tells me that you cannot
> <gknysh@...> wrote:
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> > --- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
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> > > Here's an example:
> > >
> > > Languages X and Y are assumed descended from
> > > reconstructed language
> > > Z.
> > >
> > > Language X is spoken in area A.
> > >
> > > Language Y is spoken in area B.
> > >
> > > Therefore language Z was spoken in area B.
> > >
> > > Is this correct logic?
> >
> > GK: Not unless you assume that the descent of
> Y
> > from Z occurred in area B.
> > >
>
> You didn't get it, obviously. It was your own logic
> you commented.
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