Re: Clueless roolz...

From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 57924
Date: 2008-04-24

At 8:50:04 PM on Wednesday, April 23, 2008, alexandru_mg3
wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott"
> <BMScott@...> wrote:

>> At 5:10:19 AM on Wednesday, April 23, 2008, alexandru_mg3
>> wrote:

>>> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott"
>>> <BMScott@> wrote:

>>>> At 9:46:56 PM on Tuesday, April 22, 2008, tolgs001 wrote:

>>>>>>What you will do with 'noian' 'imense waters' that is
>>>>>>from /uj&/ and not from Romanian 'apa'...

>>>>>>You will remove it from DEX?

[...]

> Brian, if we have X-ga and X=uya ==> X-ga is derived from
> X ==> this is what I have said, when I said.

No, it isn't, as may be plainly seen above.

> Dex. "cf." ==> means something else: [...]

Yes; it means 'compare' (Latin <confer>). It implies that
the editors saw the possibility of a relationship but did
not choose to claim that one existed, probably because the
claim is inadequately supported.

Brian