From: Jan van Steenbergen (ijzeren_jan@yahoo.co.uk)
Date: Tue Apr 29 2003 - 03:02:47 EST
--- John Cowan skrzypszy:
> Germanic is really F-Celtic-Italic.
I think that one qualifies for your essentialist explanations.
> I collected the names of languages used in this expression once, over a bunch
> of natlangs. "Greek" and "Chinese" were dominant, but I also collected
> "Hebrew" (for Danish), and "Turkish" (for Italian). I particularly liked
> the following phrase: "Parlo italiano o turco ottomano?!"
In Dutch it is definitely Chinese. In Polish too, I think.
Jan
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