Re: beyond langauges

From: Rick McCallister
Message: 58264
Date: 2008-05-01

Language families existing in BOTH Europe and Asia.
WOW, imagine the possibilities: Indo-European, Turkic,
Mongolic, Uralic, even Afro-Asiatic (if you count
Malta as Europe). Who'd 'a thunk it?


--- "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:

> At 2:33:35 PM on Thursday, May 1, 2008, mkelkar2003
> wrote:
>
> >> The complete idiocy is to put Indo-European in
> here, in a
> >> family made of Asiatic languages. So long as a
> >> super-family will start with that premice, it's
> >> dead-born.
>
> > How could anything European be connected to Asia?
>
> Perhaps by virtue of the fact that Europe is
> connected to
> Asia.
>
> > That just would not make sense to a European.
>
> Your bigotry is showing again. (And even as sarcasm
> it's a
> remarkably silly statement, since there are so very
> many
> obvious counterexamples, Arnaud being one of them.)
>
> Brian
>
>
>



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