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[http://www.billposer.org/Papers/hokan.pdf Here on p. 8], Poser explains the true main reason for the significance of the establishment of systematic and regular sound correspondences: to rule out ''chance similarities'' – ''not'' to rule out borrowings! Moreover, the establishment of regular sound correspondences is the prerequisite for the reconstruction of proto-stages. It is, however, not in itself a magical fix against the borrowing problem; very often it does help to rule out borrowing, but not ''always'' and unfailingly. Clearly, this is not understood by many linguists. --[[User:Florian Blaschke|Florian Blaschke]] ([[User talk:Florian Blaschke|talk]]) 23:51, 15 January 2016 (UTC)
::Well, as some have observed this would mean that it is impossible to demonstrate relatedness between isolating languages - compounded if they have short CV roots. The fact is that there are differing standards of what is accepted as conclusive evidence of relationships between individual lingusts and between schools of linguists. [[User:Maunus|·maunus]] · [[User talk:Maunus|snunɐɯ·]] 00:26, 16 January 2016 (UTC)
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