From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 21657
Date: 2003-05-10
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From: "alex_lycos" <altamix@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 9:54 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: cardinal points
> When I use germanic I understand begining with the Goths and ending with the Gepidae.
Perhaps you oughta warn us beforehand whenever you intend to use a term in a strictly Pickwickian sense. It's like stating, 'When I say "Indo-European" I mean "beginning with Hittite and ending with Luwian".'
Piotr