From: mkelkar2003
Message: 43449
Date: 2006-02-16
>"Although this ceiling of 7000 years has never been objectively
> 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
>