Re: Breton - Slovenian correspondences

From: tgpedersen
Message: 59936
Date: 2008-09-05

>
> > > > In Joz^ef S^avli/Matej Bor: Unsere Vorfahren die Veneter
> > > > (review of the English translation here:
> > > > http://tinyurl.com/6jn43n )
>
> Here are the alleged Breton - Slovenian correspondent words (pp.
> 339-343, translated
>
> It is of course interesting which of the words are only Breton and
> Slovenian and which are generally Celtic and Slavic, respectively.
> Comments are appreciated.
> ============
>
> This exercice also shows the vanity of the statistical argument
> used by some people.
> Clearly, it's __not__ difficult to find a huge number of look-alike
> words.
> It just proves nothing.
>
> I suppose it would not be possible to create clean correspondances
> with this breton-slovenian list.

How does that point of view reflect on your efforts to find
correspondences between Germanic and Siberian languages?


Torsten