From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 60903
Date: 2008-10-15
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From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
>
>> Would you say that they emerged at a time when PIE was still
>> largely undifferentiated, as "Old European"? Or..?****
>
> People say that, I don't. Most of those 'people' think like
> land-people (French, German, Russian), not sea-people (English, Dutch)
> which means areas must be colored solid on their maps, this because
> everyone in their view is basically a farmer, if he isn't somebody,
> and thus sedentary.
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English people are not sea-people
they are basically land-people living in a island.
Thanks to the agricultural revolution of the XVIIth century,
the English population exploded and the outspill of population conquered
most of the world.
This has nothing to do with sea and sea-faring.
Your typology is completely unacceptable.
To say nothing about Bretons, Vendeens and Charentais people who were
sea-farers and corsaires.
Arnaud
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