[tied] Re: Indo-European for Uralic speakers

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>
wrote:

> It does appear (and is defined) in
> Heinlein's juvenile _Citizen of the Galaxy_, in which
> Finnish is the language of a nomadic culture of galactic
> free traders

Minor correction: Nominally, each ship had its own language. The
hero had to learn versions of a prepared speech in many different
languages, for it was not known which ship he would contact.

Richard.