Re: language shift ( it was Celts & Cimmerians)

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...>
wrote:

>
> Imagine confusing Finnish with Italian. Not quite the same thing.
> Yet people will confuse Japanese with Vietnamese or Mandarin with
> Cantonese. Hoeyde gam choen laa!

That's not an entirely apt analogy. For one thing,
the dividing line between language and dialect is
fuzzy. For another, Mandarin and Cantonese _are_
related to one another, Finnish and Italian aren't,
Vietnamese and Mandarin aren't.

David