Re: Stacking up on standard works

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>
> Thank you, I know the meaning of the adjective "predictable". What
> puzzles me is that you think the comparative method should yield
> predictable results. If they are predictable, why compare things at

all?

>

No, no. It's the sound correspondences which should be predictable (i.e.
"regular" in the traditional IE-ist jargon). You see a pattern here and
there, then you make a hypothesis and test it, and if it works, voila!