Sentence examples for errors of glottochronology from inspiring English sources

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"We haven't repeated the errors of glottochronology," Dr. Gray said in an interview.

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A number of linguists do not accept the methods or findings of glottochronology, for two reasons: the difficulty of compiling a culturally unbiased basic vocabulary list and the belief that the rate of linguistic change is not the same for all languages and is not constant for any single language.

A standard criticism of glottochronology is that it assumes a constant rate of vocabulary replacement across languages.

Thanks to errors of navigation?

Errors, of course, always are bad.

Other errors of judgement are not.

From "The Errors of Constructivism".

Errors of attribution get repeated a hundredfold.

"When we make errors, let us be sure they are errors of judgment, not errors of principle".

These are not errors of cultural understanding.

I saw the error of my ways.

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