Re: OT: babel and english
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, August 21, 2001, 23:18 |
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"SMITH,MARCUS ANTHONY" wrote:
> Of course. Various groups had vastly different ways of accounting for
> these differences as well.
The there's the area of the Amazon where one must marry someone from a
different language, their explanation is simply "If we all spoke the
same, where would we find wives?" :-)
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