Re: Gulliver

> From: Samuel Rivier
>
> And I mentioned complexion because linguistic roots
> are often linked to racial roots. Because every world
> was in the Pacific area, the inhabitants could be
> descendents of Orientals (forgive the terminology if
> its offensive- my vocab isnt that good), suggesting a
> Sino, Japanese, Korean, etc linguistic group. If they
> are more Southeast Asian in complexion, they'll
> probably be related to those languages. And for the
> giant people of Brobdingnag, adjacent to the Americas,
> if they resembled Native Americans in appearance, they
> could have an Inuit- type language.
It would seem to me that these are cultural influences rather than
influences of complexion or race.  In fact, even your example is flawed,
being more reflective of racial stereotypes than linguistic analysis.
Chinese and Japanese do not belong to the same language family, there being
no "Oriental" language family last time I looked.

Stay curious,
David

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