Re: Island
| From: | Padraic Brown <pbrown@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, May 15, 2000, 2:17 |
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On Sun, 14 May 2000, Jonathan Chang wrote:
>hmmm, while we are at it, perhaps people on steppes were not as ignorant of
>these ideas & words as one would suppose... if they travelled & traded over
>long distances, they are bound to come into contact with lotsa new &
>interesting experiences & new languages to borrow from, right???
Right. Which is the thinking behind all the directions IE langs
took when comming up with words for i. If I'm not mistaken.
Padraic.