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Europe and the Indo-European Languages
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| Friday, June 13, 2008
| Fjordman
Posted on 06/13/2008 8:38:13 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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The Brussels Journal is written by Europeans, living in as well as outside Europe. The Brussels Journal is published by the Society for the Advancement of Freedom in Europe (SAFE), a Swiss non-profit organisation.
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posted on
06/13/2008 8:39:10 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
To: blam; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; ...
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posted on
06/13/2008 8:42:20 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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posted on
06/13/2008 8:48:48 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
Muslims are POS scum-bags.
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posted on
06/13/2008 9:16:02 PM PDT
by
blam
To: SunkenCiv
Why was European civilization the only civilization on earth to invent comparative linguistics? It is interesting to ponder why nobody had made this connection before. To be able to reach this conclusion you need a minimum level of travel to be able to get knowledge of a lot of languages. Just knowing two or three isn't enough. You probably need at least some knowledge of a dozen or two before you can start seeing links. Preferably you have access to older versions of languages. You can see the links more by comparing Old English to Old German than you can with the modern languages. You also need the ability to distribute information so many people can see copies of it - that means you need printing presses. It probably wasn't until the 18th century that anyone could put the necessary parts together and it was Western Europe that was on top at the time.
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posted on
06/13/2008 9:45:30 PM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(the Clinton dream of being a two impeachment family goes right down the drain. - Letterman)
To: SunkenCiv
Edward Said, the rock-throwing pathological liar... he’s dead, right?
To: blam
Don’t hold back, blam, tell us how *I* really feel. :’)
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posted on
06/13/2008 10:24:10 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: A_perfect_lady
Yeah, he was preparing to throw a massive rock, and it wound up coming down on his own ass. ;’)
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posted on
06/13/2008 10:24:58 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: KarlInOhio
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posted on
06/13/2008 10:28:27 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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posted on
06/13/2008 10:28:59 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: KarlInOhio
Many scholars had hinted at a common ancestor for modern languages.
[T]he discovery of the genetic relationship of the whole family of Indo-European languages is often attributed to Sir William Jones, a British judge in India who in a 1786 lecture (published 1788) observed that
"The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists."
in his 1786 The Sanscrit Language postulating a proto-language uniting six branches - Sanskrit (i.e. Indo-Aryan), Persian (i.e. Iranian), Greek, Latin, Germanic and Celtic.
To: SunkenCiv
Only marginally off topic: while reading this thread I am listening to a violin concerto played by Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg -— whose name I find enchanting. Nadja = Slavic; Salerno = Latin; Sonnenberg = Germanic. Now that’s European.
To: SunkenCiv; blam
Dont hold back, blam, tell us how *I* really feel. :)Excellent!
(one minor correction, *I* should be *we*)...
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posted on
06/14/2008 7:44:14 AM PDT
by
null and void
(Bureaucracies are stupid. They grow larger by the square of their age and stupider by its cube.)
To: SunkenCiv
This one is a keeper,
Thanks.
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posted on
06/14/2008 10:22:32 AM PDT
by
norton
To: null and void
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posted on
06/14/2008 11:22:31 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: norton
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posted on
06/14/2008 11:22:44 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: Malesherbes
:’) Sounds like her ancestors fiddled around too.
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posted on
06/14/2008 11:29:44 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
Muslims aren;t interested inm anything that preceded Mohammad.
Muslims are not interested in anything outside of Islam except from the perspective of learning how to destroy it.
Simple.
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posted on
06/14/2008 8:41:03 PM PDT
by
ZULU
(Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts and guns made America great.)
To: null and void
“...(one minor correction, *I* should be *we*)...”
Amen.
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posted on
06/15/2008 3:22:59 AM PDT
by
Grimmy
(equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
To: KarlInOhio
An excellent and informative post. Thank you very much.
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posted on
06/16/2008 6:34:21 AM PDT
by
twigs
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