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Re: new Klingon spelling

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Tuesday, January 6, 2004, 4:41
Tristan McLeay scripsit:

> 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?)
Same way. Note the word "cousin-german", for a cousin who is a blood relative as opposed to someone just called "cousin", commonplace in Shakespeare's day. The Spanish word for "brother", "hermano", may be related too, I don't know. English definitely borrowed the form "German(y)" from Latin, though. Before the 19th century or so, they were "(High) Dutch". -- "No, John. I want formats that are actually John Cowan useful, rather than over-featured megaliths that http://www.ccil.org/~cowan address all questions by piling on ridiculous http://www.reutershealth.com internal links in forms which are hideously jcowan@reutershealth.com over-complex." --Simon St. Laurent on xml-dev

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