Re: beyond langauges

From: Rick McCallister
Message: 58164
Date: 2008-04-28

--- kishore patnaik <kishorepatnaik09@...>
wrote:
...
> There clearly were Aryans in Mitanni at some point
> in
> time, and, as far as I know, nobody on cybalist has
> ever
> claimed otherwise, including yourself.
> this is exactly the popint. There must have been
> Aryans in Mitannis "at
> some point of time" except that nooone including the
> most authority on
> mitannis is not able to hazard a universally
> agreeable guess when this "some
> point of time" is and more importantly , in what
> form or where Aryans were
> stationed when they came into the contact with
> Mitanni.
>
Here's something to think about --the use of English
terms for computer technology et al. There are
languages that even invent "English" words for new
technological items: e.g. Japanese Walkman, Discman,
Digi(tal(mon(ster), Po(c)k(et)i(-)mon(ster); German
Handy "cellphone." They do this without being invaded
by the US because the international language of that
domain is English. I've seen plenty of movies where
all of a sudden they break into a slew of English
words for IT. In Spanish I hear it all the time: un
chip, un celular (instead of móvil, as in the
Cellphone Giant Movistar), un mouse, un escáner, un
fax, un e-mail, harware, software, etc.
c. 1500 BC or so, the important technology was
equestrian and the steppe I-A people were the ones who
introduced it to the Mitanni et al. They didn't
necessarily have to invade to leave this vocabulary.
They just had to be the "meme-masters". The maryanni
could very well have been local equestrian experts who
had mastered the "software" of riding which was
expressed in I-A.


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