Re: [tied] Re: House and City

From: Glen Gordon
Message: 6691
Date: 2001-03-22

Torsten sprechtet:
>That words were borrowed or spread out from Sundaland into Eurasia at
>a time later to be defined. But it was only an casual inquiry in the
>beginning, and I've been so busy staving off outraged linguists that
>I never got around to thinking of time-lines and such.

Too bad. Call me when you do. We'll do e-lunch. Ciao, babe.

>>But at any rate, tack s� mycket f�r danska lektionen, Tor. :)
>>
>
>That would be 'dansklektionen', gLeNe. You don't speak Danishly
>either. And you are very welcome:) (Please note that your name is in
>the vocative. I have taken the liberty of subjecting it to a Latin
>grammatical process)

Hmm, I know that there are great similarities between the two languages but
I would have reasoned that a Dane could still tell his own language from
Swedish. I don't know Danish at all. My gramma (minn varmur) was swedish...
until she passed away... and then she was finnish. Tsk, tsk.

- gLeN

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