Re: [tied] A comment on Cybalist purpose

On Mon, 09 Feb 2004 14:04:31 +0000, Marco Moretti
<marcomoretti69@...> wrote:

>Dear Sirs,
>
>I noticed a strange thing, that this list
>is devoted not to IE studies, but almost only
>to discussion on Albanian. If one posts something
>different, the new topic is submerged by mails
>about Albanian.
>I have nothing against it specifically, but I remember
>you that IE is really wide and differentiated.
>If I'd read everything written in this list I'd be able
>to speak a fluent Albanian and to save my life speaking it
>when threatened by thieves and robbers entered in my flat!

Albanian is a legitimate subject of discussion for this list. More so,
IMHO, than Romanian, which is really only of marginal interest compared to
its mother language Latin.

It's always possible to have too much a good thing, but if we consider that
not much attention is usually dedicated to Albanian in IE studies, a bit of
imbalance the other side for a while is not such a bad thing.

The insinuation that all Albanians are thieves and robbers is of course as
stupid as saying, for instance, that all Italians are mafiosi.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv@...