Re: What's it called?
- From: "Dušan Vukotić" <dusan.vukotic@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:36:13 -0800 (PST)
On Jan 30, 12:38 pm, garabik-news-2005...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
wrote:
(and Slovak colloquial "no" means "yes"...)
Czech also... It happend because both words (yes <=> no; Serb. jes/te;
je <=> ni/je; Lat. etiam <=> neutiquam; etiam atque etiam /again and
again/; Eng. 'aye <=> nay; negation <=> contention) were born from the
same basis.
If you dig deep enough, you'll find many such examples... just see
how many _possible_ one or two syllable long words are there, and
calculate the probability that you find two identical across pairs of
unrelated major languages - this is called the birthday paradox)
No, probability theory cannot be applied in case of IE languages;
because almost any of the so-called "false cognates" among IE tongues
can be sufficiently explained and their development can be tracked
back to their common source.
DV
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