--- In Nostratica@yahoogroups.com, "H.M. Hubey" <hubeyh@...> wrote:

> But again, there has to be general principles that have to be

applied

> consistently.
>
> There are only two of them:
>
> 1. recurrent sound change
> 2. some words are not borrowable; e.g. Swadesh 100 list, Yakhontov

35 list

> etc are formalization of this concept.
>
> If these postulates are not believed then there is no HL (hist

ling). If

> HL is
> valid and is based on the two postulates, then the postulates are
> believed then they
> have to applied, and applied consistently. No tweaking constantly.

I thought it might make discussion easier if I looked up your ideas
in your on-line publications. However, when I tried to download

http://www.csam.montclair.edu/~hubey/ZIP/hist-ling.zip

and

http://www.csam.montclair.edu/~hubey/ZIP/compare.zip ,

I got the error message:

HTTP Error 403 - Forbidden

which was explained as, 'You are not authorized to view this page'.
Is this as intended?

Richard.