Re: Linguistics in a Colonial World:

From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 56063
Date: 2008-03-27

----- Original Message -----
From: tgpedersen
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 8:06 PM
Subject: [Courrier indésirable] Re: [tied] Linguistics in a Colonial World:


--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:
>
> I don't know what you are trying
> to show with the long uncommented mail
>
> As regards "colonial" linguistics,
> I suppose this means that
> Europeans should flog themselves once again,
>
> The first grammatical description of Bantu
> dates back to 1570
> If the Englishman Palsgrave had not written
> about French in 1530,
> Bantu would predate French.
>
> What is your point M. Kelkar ?

You think M. Kelkar shouldn't try to influence scientific discourse by
trying to capitalize on past sins on the part of the ethnic groups of
some of its practitioners, M. Fournet?

Torsten

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I think M. Kelkar should first explain
why he thought useful to send this
and next, some words of introduction
would be nice.

Arnaud

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