Re: [tied] Re: searching for common words for all today's languages

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 43289
Date: 2006-02-07

On 2006-02-06 00:08, mkelkar2003 wrote:

> "Turning to Iranians, I remarked earlier that speakers of
> Indo-European's so-called "Iranian" branch must have lived on the
> steppe before infiltrating southward to Iran, where non-Indo-European
> Elamites already had a civilization. Now, Greek and Roman writers in
> the centuries before and after Christ stated that Iranian-speaking
> peoples north of the Black Sea and Caspian had fair or reddish hair
> and blue eyes"
>
> I just checked. I do not have reddish hair and blue eyes. Hehehehe.

Much as I disagree with J.V. Day on almost everything, the comment above
is a non-sequitur unles you speak an Iranian language, was born in
Ukraine, southern Russia or Kazakhstan, and are about 2000 years old.

Piotr