Re: [tied] Re: pre-Nostratic *male[:]k?xa, 'milk (vb.)'

From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 43387
Date: 2006-02-13

At 9:30:27 PM on Sunday, February 12, 2006, mkelkar2003
wrote:

> --- 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%
>>> 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.

It would be nice if you'd stop wasting my time: the caption
over Table 2 makes it clear that the table refers to items
that are superficially similar, not to demonstrable
cognates.

Brian