Re: Origin of Chinese spoken languages - 2nd evidence

From: Peter T. Daniels (grammatim_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: 10/27/04 

Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 11:57:21 GMT

yky wrote:
>
> Peter T. Daniels wrote:
> >
> > In English?
> >
>
> Don't know.
>
> > And 1865 is closer to 1875 than to 1850.
>
> So be it. When I posted the article, I was thinking about 1856.
> Since I wasn't sure, I used "around 1850" just to cover my ass. To
> me, even 1875 is around 1850. You are a linguist and care about
> etymology; I'm not and don't care. That's the difference.

That's arithmetic, not etymology. 

-- 
Peter T. Daniels                       grammatim@att.net

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