Re: [tied] A comment on Cybalist purpose

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:

> 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.
>
> =======================
> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
> mcv@...

Yes, I know that Albanian is a lagitimate matter, and
I have nothing against it (I studied Illyrian and proto-Albanian
reconstruction), but there are also other topics
that could be discussed, but in the last times nothing can be
discussed here because simply submerged by nearly inconsistent mails.
I don't say all Albanians are robbers, but if you'd live in Italy,
you'd be compelled to face strange realities not seen elsewhere, and
there are many terrible bands of outlaws which terrorize entire
districts. Ten years ago I knew an Albanian that vaunted to have
slaughtered more then ten policemen in his country, but he was an old
Nick and a good fellow of drunkness. Some honest Italian people saved
their own lifes speaking Albanian to robbers, and this is not an
invention of mine, it is reality. But all this doesn't matter, and I
don't deny that there is a plenty of mafiosi (and worse things) in
Italy, if I had the chance of my birthplace I think I'd be a German.

Regards

Marco