Re: Xians before X
- From: "Dan Goodman" <dsgood@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 22:26:08 -0600
westprog wrote:
>
> "Dorothy J Heydt" <djheydt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:Irt5o7.H4I@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > In article <1135088675.020593.205760@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> > Richard R. Hershberger <rrhersh@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> ...
> > > Rather like the time I was in a university library looking at
> > > their heraldry section. I took a book off the shelf and opened
> > > it at random, and found what I thought was Spanish text. That's
> > > OK: I can fake that. But as I read I realized it wasn't
> > > Spanish, and momentarily thought it was French. I finally looked
> > > at the title page and discovered it was published in Barcelona.
> >
> > So it was Catalan.
>
> But don't try that technique with Basque.
>
Unless you have a good command of the language ancestral to both Basque
and the Indo-European languages, of course; and a computer which will
"age" the various daughter....eleventy-eleventh-granddaughter languages.
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