From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 50078
Date: 2007-09-25
> --- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:I would have done, but that was actually Piotr.
>>> The Chinese 'dog' word, however, has cognates throughout
>>> Sino-Tibetan, and so probably has nothing to do with the
>>> PIE word and any similarity between them is fortuitous.
>>> I don't exclude the possibility of an extremely old
>>> Wanderwort, but I prefer to suspend my judgement until
>>> such time as PST reconstructions based on solid
>>> comparative work become relatively stable and
>>> uncontroversial.
>> Apparently you haven't suspended your judgement on
>> whether they are related since you have already declared
>> that 'any similarity between them is fortuitous'.
> ****GK: Typical Torsten (he of the 0000.1% solutions(:=)))
> Brian said "probably" not "absolutely". [...]