Re: Re[2]: [tied] Re: Renfrew's theory renamed as Vasco-Caucasian

--- "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:

> At 8:51:55 AM on Tuesday, September 25, 2007, george
> knysh
> wrote:
>
> > --- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
>
> >>> 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". [...]
>
> I would have done, but that was actually Piotr.
>
> Brian

****GK: Whooops... apologies to all. I hadn't read
Piotr's message when I barged in (early morning and I
just couldn't resist (:=)). I'll be more careful as to
sequences.****

>
>
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