From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 68884
Date: 2012-03-09
> > While it has been estimated that *some* very common lexicalI don't mean lexicostatistics/glottochronology. I mean actual studies of
> > items may have expected "half-lives" of ten thousand years or more,
> > usable evidence sooner or later evaporates due to lexical replacement,
> > cross-linguistic diffusion, etc.
> >
> This sounds me to lexicostatistical pseudo-science (not that I like to
> use this word, but as somebody here has hurled it at me, I feel
> legitimate to use it).