Re[2]: [tied] Re: Mitanni and Matsya

At 1:26:54 PM on Sunday, April 6, 2008, Patrick Ryan wrote:

> From: "david_russell_watson" <liberty@...>

>> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan"
>> <proto-language@...> wrote:

[...]

>>> You wrote "Jasz". That is a region of Hungary.

>> Why would I say 'Hungarian' when I am not Hungarian? I've
>> never been a citizen of Hungary or even visited the
>> country, and neither has any ancestor of mine in several
>> generations been a citizen of Hungary, and I am not a
>> Magyar either.

[...]

> Then why did you write "Jasz"?

Presumably because it's precisely what he meant. As I
understand it, the Jász were originally Ossetic.

Brian