Re: [tied] On Non-Linguistic IE Languages

From: george knysh
Message: 13454
Date: 2002-04-24

--- alexmoeller@... wrote:
> [George wrote]:
> > To me a contemporary
> > Englishman is not simply someone who happens to
> speak
> > a kind of "English", but someone with an enormous
> and
> > impressive accompanying cultural baggage.
>
> [Moeller] What do you understand trough this
> "cultural baggage " regarding
> to the inocently and not so "well educated" english
> peasant ?

*****GK: Someone with a somewhat lighter cultural
baggage than an Oxford Don. I suppose they would both
"understand" "Coronation Street" in ways which escape
even most Canadians and Americans let alone
Romanians(:=))*****
>
>


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