Re: Georgian Protesters Move to Oust President Saakashvili

On Apr 16, 6:44 am, ostap_bender_1...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Apr 15, 8:58 am, dmitrijsfedot...@xxxxxxxx wrote:



On 15 Apr, 09:42, ostap_bender_1...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

On Apr 14, 6:22 pm, "captain!" <whomsoe...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Georgian Protesters Move to Oust President Saakashvili

http://www.sptimes.ru/index.php?action_id=2&story_id=28743

By Matt Robinson and Margarita Antidze

Reuters

TBILISI - Georgian opposition leaders said on Monday they would move daily
street protests to President Mikheil Saakashvili's office as they fought to
maintain momentum in a campaign to force his resignation.

Some 20,000 people demonstrated on Monday outside parliament in the former
Soviet republic, the fifth day of their protest.

I wonder if John will agree that  all of the protesters were waving
English flags:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Georgia.svg

vs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_England.svg

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/09/georgia-protests-mikheil-...

On this picture they seem to wave blue flags.

Interesting. Does anybody know what these flags symbolise? One of them
seems to be blue-and-red...



What's the point of bringing up a dead argument?  I does get tedious.

Isn't it a tradition here at SCB, especially with ad nauseum ad
hominem demagogues like Peteris and Wideass?

In my case, i was just jokingly pointing out the similarity between
Georgian and English flags. Also, interestingly, Georgians often refer
to their country as Iveria, which is the name they got in ancient
greek/roman times for their country's alleged similarity with Iberia:
Basque Spain. Many people believe that  Georgians, Basques and Celts
were the "original Europeans", while the modern European ethnicities
came later and took over most of Europe.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/1256894.stm
Genes link Celts to Basques

http://www.georgiaemb.org/DisplayMedia.asp?id=252
Georgians, Basques Linked Culturally.

Also see

http://www.basqueclubnq.com/history.html

Nonsense. Nobody knows for sure. Wikipedia:

Hypotheses on connections with other languages

The impossibility of linking Basque with its Indo-European neighbours
in Europe has inspired many scholars to search for its possible
relatives elsewhere. Besides many pseudoscientific comparisons, the
appearance of long-range linguistics gave rise to several attempts to
connect Basque with geographically very distant language families. All
hypotheses on the origin of Basque are controversial, and the
suggested evidence is not generally accepted by most linguists. Some
of these hypothetical connections are as follows:

* Iberian: another ancient language once spoken in the peninsula,
shows several similarities with Aquitanian and Basque. However, there
is not enough evidence to distinguish areal contacts from genetic
relationship. Iberian itself remains unclassified.[12]
* Georgian: Linking Basque to South Caucasian languages, seems now
widely discredited. The hypothesis was inspired by the existence of
the ancient Kingdom of Iberia farther east in the Mediterranean.
According to J.P. Mallory, in his 1989 book In Search of the Indo-
Europeans, the hypothesis was also inspired by a Basque place-name
ending in -adze.
* Northeast Caucasian languages, such as Chechen, are seen by some
linguists, like Michel Morvan, as more likely candidates for a very
distant connection.[13]
* Dene-Caucasian superfamily: Based on the possible Caucasian
link, some linguists, for example John Bengtson and Merritt Ruhlen,
have proposed including Basque in the Dene-Caucasian superfamily of
languages, but this proposed superfamily includes languages from North
America and Eurasia, and its existence is highly controversial.[3]
* Vasconic substratum hypothesis: This proposal, by the German
linguist Theo Vennemann, claims that there is enough toponymical
evidence to conclude that Basque is the only survivor of a larger
family that once extended throughout most of Europe, and has also left
its mark in modern Indo-European languages spoken in Europe.[14]
.

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