From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 60655
Date: 2008-10-07
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>
>
>>>> I understand the argument but I'm not convinced. There
>>>> are counter examples.
>
>>> The fact that you can talk about counterexamples shows that
>>> you do *not* understand the argument. The argument doesn't
>>> deny the existence of widespread loanwords.
>
>> I understand the argument,
>
> I'm sorry, but the fact that you think that widely
> distributed loanwords are counterexamples to the argument
> shows very clearly that you do not understand it.
>
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You don't need to be sorry,
you just completely mis-understood me,
I was stating that very often, one can find _one_ language in a whole family
that is the only language of that family to display a cognate to another
family when all the other languages of that family display something else
instead.
This is what I had in mind when I spoke of counter-examples.
Arnaud
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