Rate of Change

[Vidhyanath Rao]

S. Long <X99Lynx at aol.com> wrote:
> But what you're saying - up until the last sentence - seems to make out that
> "systematic correspondence" come out of thin air.

> Where a comparative analysis has to begin - not where it ends up - is
> similarities and resemblances between two or more languages.

The point is that such similarities and resemblances are considered to
be coincidences till systematic correspondences have been established.
The difference is between collection of discrete facts and establishment
of general laws. Only the latter is (nowadays) considered science.