[tied] Re: The indo european "race"

From: siglo_20th_century
Message: 26256
Date: 2003-10-05

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...>
wrote:
>
> Siglo, obsessed with race, explains:
> >I have seen painted pottery indeed, it's just that I don't remember
> >any image of Caesar on one. Could you give me an example of
Caesar's
> >image in color or in pottery from classical times?
>
> It's simply irrelevant to IE studies what 'colour' Caeasar was! What
do you
> have to contribute to linguistics? Obviously nothing thus far.




Why all this? because I give the fellow a chance to give an example
and prove his point? Does it become irrelevant when you suddenly don't
like the topic? I for one don't consider it irrelevant since the forum
does talk about linguistics, but at its home page it also says IE
culture and history, which, I believe, includes (why not?) the
ethnicity of the language c