From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 43387
Date: 2006-02-13
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:[...]
>> At 6:21:19 PM on Sunday, February 12, 2006, mkelkar2003
>> wrote:
>>> Of the 35 most basic word vocabulary PIE and OC have 23%It would be nice if you'd stop wasting my time: the caption
>>> 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.
> Refer to Table 2 below:
> http://www.ee.cuhk.edu.hk/~wsywang/publications/lg_diversity.pdf
>> Presumably you mean that 23 items are superficially
>> similar.