GREEK PREHISTORY AND IE (EVIDENCE?)

Hans Holm Hans_Holm at h2.maus.de
Sun Feb 13 08:08:00 UTC 2000


SG>I have been "wrong" myself more often
..  Who is wrong, who is wright? Linguistics is no mathematics;
   and out of /this/ reason the expression "wrong" perhaps should be handled
   with much more caution. Linguists often don't seem to be aware that nearly
   everything they "state" is to a large degree a question of probability.

   An easy accessible attempt on this topic is Mark Rosenfelder 'How likely
   are chance resemblances between languages? in www.zompist.com/chance.html.
   Though in the binomial formulas one faculty mark '!' is always set wrong*,
   the results are correct. (*what shows that in one year nobody with minimal
   mathematical competence really did read this article).

   HJH



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