Re: [tied] Belgians and Gauls

From: george knysh
Message: 49663
Date: 2007-08-26

--- "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:

> Ok, I am a little bit too emotional,
> Sometimes I get "out of track".
>
> I maintain that Caesar killed and enslaved Hundreds
> of thousands of people
> this is not a good training to become an competent
> ethnologist.

****GK: My dear Arnaud, "killing and enslaving
hundreds of thousands of people" is neither an
argument for nor an argument against "ethnologic
competence". Caesar certainly had a rudimentary talent
for making linguistic and ethnic distinctions (so did
Hitler and Stalin if you wish to put him in their
company). What would have been the point of lying
about the ethno-linguistic status of the Belgians,
while being truthful about the Aquitani?****




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