Re: Larry Athy and His Logical Analyses.

"Eric Stevens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 11:43:37 -0000, "JMB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> >> Pearson, Chi squared, Student's-t etc all rely on the application of
> >> the Taylor and McLaurin expansion of the Binomial theorem.
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> >So?  That still doesn't change the fact that none of them can be used in
> >conjunction with letter counts to prove a relationship between two
> >languages.
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> You don't really know that.

I really do.  I, unlike you, have checked.  Linguists need words, not
letters, and certainly not a selection of letters, to show such links.

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> Eric Stevens

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