Re: Etruscans

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

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Rick McCallister
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 9:40 PM
> Subject: Re: Re: [tied] Etruscans
>
>
> No one says Etruscans didn't only settle in
> Tuscany.
>
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> Why not,
> So where else ?
> Arnaud

Who knows?

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> Tuscany was the only place they were successful.
>
> ========
> Why did they succeed there ?
> Why did they fail in other places ?
> Arnaud

Who knows?

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> People of English ancestry are only about
> 10% of US citizens --they are outnumbered by
> people of
> Scot-Irish, German, Hispanic and African ancestry.
> If
> we go by migrants, Americans should be speaking
> Gaelic
> or German, yet these languages only left remnant
> vocabulary.
>
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> People voted and English language won over German
> by one vote.
> It could have been Die Vereinigten Staaten. One
> vote counts.
> Arnaud

Nice story except it's apocryphal --it didnt quite
happen like that. It also purportedly happened at a
time when Germans were only numerous in Pennsylvania.
Elsewhere, they were minuscule and in the US as a
whole they were outnumbered by the French. Even George
Washington was part French.
But the French assimilated very quickly as evidenced
by the bastardization of their last names: d'Aubigny >
Dabney, Cartier > Carter, Xavier > Sevier, Garnier >
Garner, Meuret > Merritt, des Moulins > Mullins, etc.

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