Re: Etruscans

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:

>
> Great !
>
> Now,
> as far as this paper is concerned,
> I think a better title could have been :
> "a philological review of some toponyms of north-west Anatolia"
> The title "the homeland of Etruscans" is absurd.
>
> And I don't understand why some people keep thinking
> things are not what they are and peoples should always come from
> some other unknown place.
> Etruscans are just Etruscans
> and they originate in the place where they are known to live.
> And this needs no further explanation at all.
>
> Arnaud

If things had been always the way things were and people hadn't come
from other places and taken over what other peoples thought were
theirs then you would have been speaking Dutch and probably not have
had that 'la linguistique, c'est moi' attitude.


Torsten