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From: petrich@netcom.com (Loren Petrich)
Subject: Re: Amazing Chinese-English coincidences: shi4=see
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	A few words out of thousands do not mean very much. Try some 
*systematic* comparisons, such as counting from 1 to 10 or the pronouns 
or words for body parts or "Sun", "Moon", "star", "water", "fire", 
"name", and other such relatively stable words. Check out

http://www.tezcat.com/~markrose/numbers.html

for words for "1" to "10" in a large number of languages. It should not 
be difficult to see how the various words are related.
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