From: Daniel Dubowy
Message: 14767
Date: 2002-08-29
>Naaaaaahhh...
> --- alexmoeller@... wrote:
> > I asked before about this pretty unknown writterr.
> I
> > got no
> > answer, and I found nothing more about him.
> > I got an information ( indeed I did not verify it,
> > because
> > simple I have no ideea where to find something
> > about). I have
> > no ideea when this one wrotte.
> > Butt all I know fallows here:
> > - Lappus tell us abouit a dacian tribe which does
> > not appear
> > in Ptolemeus list, these beeing "Canadenses"
> > - Lappus tell us about a city of them called
> > "Montedava"
> > - Lappus tells us, they spoked a language which he
> > could
> > understand even if he have had some difficulties
> to
> > understand it, but he did.
> > - Lappus writtes down some words and even a short
> > sentence
> > from that language:
> > "non tu sed tsu dicunt"
> > "dzi" instead of dico.
> > "est plus pirus", -- this one Lappus could not
> > understand
> > "marde blans".
> > The leader of these canadenses have had the house
> > near a river
> > called "Kebek", river which remains unidentifed
> > untill now.
> >
> > That is all I know, from only one source, I could
> > not verify
> > it, I have no ideea if there is more or not in the
> > work of
> > this Lappus.
> > Fact is, that what we get here, changes in an very
> > wide way a
> > lot about we think to know about dacians, and I
> > guess for
> > every linguist is clear which implications these
> > informations
> > have.
> >
> > best regards
> >
> > a. moeller
>
> ******GK: Is this some sort of bad joke about
> Canadians from Montreal, Quebec, who speak of
> "merde"??*****
> >