Dear friends,

cultures influence each other all the time. While we are on this topic, I hope to prevent any further confusion which may arise due to a lack of linguistic knowledge, a highly special area of study, for most people.

When we say an English word has an Indoeuropean origin, very often we are referring to origins in Greek or Latin or both (in some temporal order). Less often, we are actually speaking of a direct Indian influence, except for words which are adopted into the English vocabulary in recent times, i.e. around and after the colonial era.


metta,
Yong Peng.

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, Ong Yong Peng wrote:

However, cultures influences each other all the other, for better or worse.