From: BP Jonsson (bpj@melroch.net)
Date: Fri May 02 2003 - 20:36:26 EST
At 18:02 28.4.2003 +0100, Jan van Steenbergen wrote:
> > 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.
In Swedish it is either Greek or Chinese. I say "Martian" since I actually
know
quite a bit of Greek and some words of Chinese. People always get what I mean!
>Jan
/ B.Philip Jonsson B^)
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