Re: [tied] Re: (a bit offtopic - sorry for that) Slavic infinitive

Dear members,

Such hate-mail had better be left alone in the gutter where it belongs.
There's no need to comment on it publicly.

Piotr

On 05-03-16 03:05, Petusek wrote:

>
> >Return-path: <DanKandall@...>
> >From: dankandall <DanKandall@...>
> >Subject: End it now!
> >To: mcv@...
> >Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 18:48:54 +0000
> >X-Yahoo-Post-IP: 24.8.117.117 [dns01.jdc01.pa.comcast.net]
> >
> >Please stop using Lithuanian as an
> >example of a "slavic" language.
> >
> >We are sick of you slavic scum
> >attempting to eradicate us physically
> >as well as culturally.
>
> Hey, that's cool! Politics, patriotism, physical eradication - all the
> three p's a "good story" should have, shouldn't it?! I'm sorry I didn't
> know Lithuanian also used -ti as an infinitive ending. I know Lithuanian
> is a Baltic tongue as well as Czech is a Slavic language. I (quite
> surprisingly) know something about certain "attempts to eradicate" you
> "physically as well as culturally", as well as certain "attempts to
> eradicate" us "Czechs by Germans and Russians"...funny...funny how much
> we don't know...Let's kill each other, we'll have some fun, fiends and
> friends - all the three f's a "good story" should have, shouldn't it?!