Re: Big Six Revisited... again :/
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, June 24, 2000, 9:26 |
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At 21:50 22.6.2000 -0500, Herman Miller wrote:
>words for "German" and
>"Germany" are so variable in other languages
For me it feels very odd not to be able to distinguish between the medieval
and modern Theotisci and the ancient Germani when writing/speaking English.
I coined "Germanian" once, but a native speaker balked at it.
Why "halbániya" rather than "albániya", BTW?
/BP
B.Philip Jonsson mailto:melroch@mail.com
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