Re: query: distorted languages?

On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Nik Taylor wrote:

>Matt McLauchlin wrote:
>> It doesn't even have to do with the same word all the time. When was
>> the last time you heard someone get described as "niggardly"?
>
>Or for that matter, when was the last time you heard someone talk about
>the "Aryan Languages"?  That was a term sometimes used for Indo-European
>in the 19th and first half of the 20th centuries.
This week. There's a bit of a nut on Usenet who seems to be a bit
of a naziphile. He's apparently well known and dreaded. One of his
recent gems had to do with the "Aryan Language Group".

Also, I use the somewhat loose term "Aryan" as a descriptor of
certain cultures and peoples in the webpage concerning my own
fantasy world. It is, essentially, the transdimensional equivalent
of "Indo-European"; though linguistics and the idea of a language
family are rather nascent *there*.

Padraic.

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