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Re: new Klingon spelling

From:Tristan McLeay <zsau@...>
Date:Tuesday, January 6, 2004, 4:24
On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, John Cowan wrote:

> Ph. D. scripsit: > > > Not to mention Finland and Germany. Look at the > > variety of names for Germany in the various European > > languages: Germany (English), Alemania (Spanish), > > Njemacka (Croatian), and even Deutschland (German). > > "The relatives", "all the men" (or "the all-men"), "the dumb/speechless", > "the people" respectively.
Is calling them 'the relatives' perculiar to English? Is it so because they're historically related? (I think the Latin is Germania? How does that get justified?) -- Tristan

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