From: mkelkar2003
Message: 43386
Date: 2006-02-13
>Refer to Table 2 below:
> At 6:21:19 PM on Sunday, February 12, 2006, mkelkar2003
> wrote:
>
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott"
> > <BMScott@> wrote:
>
> >> At 10:21:42 AM on Sunday, February 12, 2006, Daniel J.
> >> Milton wrote:
>
> >>> Despised as Ruhlen may be by at least some Cybalisters,
> >>> one of his better-looking roots is "MALIQ'A "to suck(le),
> >>> nurse, breast", with exemplars from (besides the IE and AA
> >>> of Patrick's posting) Uralic, Dravidian, Eskimo-Aleut,
> >>> Caucasian and Amerind. Dan
>
> >> <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/14477>
>
> > Of the 35 most basic word vocabulary PIE and OC have 23%
> > cognates. That is too many for a chance occurence.
>
> This is a non sequitur. It's also obviously incorrect:
> apart from a tiny handful of possible borrowings, there are
> *no* known cognates, since OC is not known to be related to
> PIE at all.
> superficially similar. I suggest that you read the articlesYes. I have read the zompist articles. Linguistics is not an exact
> by Mark Rosenfelder the Piotr mentioned in the Cybalist post
> that I cited.
>
> Brian
>