Re: [tied] Re: Keeping up, barely :-)

From: alexmoeller@...
Message: 15094
Date: 2002-09-04

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From: "richardwordingham" <richard.wordingham@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 12:50 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: Keeping up, barely :-)


.
>
> Can't comply. I haven't spent any yet. I think I read the
remark in
> a review in one of the learned journals, possibly 'Word'.
It would
> have been a review of a book describing the various
varieties
> of 'Moldavian'. I remember the reviewer was very angry that
anyone
> thought it made sense to consider 'Moldavian' dialects a
coherent
> group, for they are a continuation of the Romanian dialects
of
> Romania.

[Moeller] do not bother. I found a lot fo "serious" paper who
insisted to mean the capital of Rumania is budapest..The west
society is in generaly bd informed about easten wordl:-)

>
> > (Hang in Alex..keep stirring 'em up :-)

> Unfortunately, educating Alex is hard going. It doen't seem
to have
> occurred to him to wonder how the outcome of dent- 'tooth'
taken from
> a non-Latin source was going to differ from the outcome of
Latin
> de:ns, dent- 'tooth'.
>
> Richard.

[Moeller] have you found the explanation for "zimtz"
eventualy?