Mutual intelligibility of Vedic and Greek [was Re: the Wheel and Dating P...

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

>alderson at netcom.com writes:

>While my Sanskrit professor thought (and taught) this way in his introductory
>class, in my opinion one would have to be extremely well versed in the history
>of both languages in order for this to work, so much so that the experiment is
>not really possible:

-- as an experiment, why not compare a few sentences?  Say:

"I sacrificed a hundred cattle to the gods."

"Our powerful and mighty heroes siezed the land of their enemies."

That sort of thing.