IE "Urheimat" and evidence from Uralic linguistics

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

>Georg at home.ivm.de writes:

<< But in view that they are subject to borrowing after all, this
"unlikeliness" cannot be used as a heuristic for demonstrating relatedness.

-- "good enough for Government work" as the saying goes.

Any single word may be borrowed, but the _corpus_ of basic vocabulary is
remarkably stable in most languages and is useful for doing a "first cut".

Being painstaking about details is all well and good, but we should beware of
being able to see the forest for the trees.