Veneti (Was Re: Belgs)

From: tgpedersen
Message: 60905
Date: 2008-10-15

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Arnaud Fournet" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> 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.
> ========
> English people are not sea-people
> they are basically land-people living in a island.

Erh, okay.

> Thanks to the agricultural revolution of the XVIIth century,
> the English population exploded and the outspill of population
> conquered most of the world.

Please tell me more about this agricultural revolution of the XVIIth
century which happened only in England.

> This has nothing to do with sea and sea-faring.

English people can't fly.

> Your typology is completely unacceptable.

I thought you wouldn't like it.

> To say nothing about Bretons, Vendeens and Charentais people who
> were sea-farers and corsaires.

And who made up the bulk of the French colonists in the new world
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-David_Nau
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiac
Some of the Acadians moved back to France after being kicked out by
the English, but moved to Louisiana after a few years. They preferred
America under British rule to the stifling atmosphere under l'ancien
régime in France.


Torsten