Re: [tied] Genetic Link between Albanian and Romanian

From: alex
Message: 30525
Date: 2004-02-02

Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:

> Well, not in your Dacian fairy land. But I mean the real world.

Tell me about that world!. Amase me, make me open the eyes. Show me that I
never heard about such historical testimony which are somewhere to read:-)
Let me tell you what is there: linguistic assumtions. And unfortunately not
a bit strong. Beside some Toponyms in Serbia and Bulgaria , actualy fixed
around 13 century it seems even linguisticaly is nothing.

>
>> Since one speaks about historical testimonies, there are some which
>> speaks about a such kind of geographical neighbourhood. But there is
>> no word about Romanians or Albanians. Just about Illyrians and
>> Thracians. Since Albanians are not Illyrians in your mind and
>> Romanians are not Thracians, then the historical records do not tell
>> us anything about any posible neighbourhood of these people, thus
>> they never have been neighbour and their phonetic system & common
>> _only_ shared lexica is just a coincidental issue. So much about
>> 1+1=2
>
> I won't even bother to refute this contorted argument. Anyone can see
> that logic isn't your forte.
>
> Piotr

I would smile but I don't. It seems the irony here was not felt. I am sorry.

Alex