Re: [tied] English.

I think Mark is "complaining" with tongue in cheek. If it's any comfort, I've learn quite a lot about the history of Polish from foreigners, including quite a few English-speakers. And "we, Indo-Europeans" owe a lot of first-class IE scholarship to "non-IE" linguists like Oswald Szemerényi or Raimo Anttila.

Piotr

----- Original Message -----
From: Glen Gordon

To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 3:00 PM

Subject: Re: [tied] English.

Frankly, no, Mark. I don't understand you. I've mentioned before how multicultural my town Winnipeg is. For me, this smells of xenophobia. I honestly never keep track of who's a "foreigner" and who isn't. It also doesn't strike me as bizarre for an English-speaking Pole to tell me about my own native language and its history. Each have their own specialty and if somebody from Poland knows all about the English language... well, all the power to them. Many English speakers don't know the origin of their own language. Also, English is not unique in being affected by surrounding languages so I don't understand the reason for the "complaint".