Re: Various chatter (short messages all in one pop....)
From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
Date: | Friday, April 28, 2000, 4:49 |
Barry Garcia scripsit:
> >May whatever is Holy save us from comparative mythologists and their
> >attempts as philology.
>
> I always got a kick out of it whenever he would compare words from
> unrelated language families and come up with false relationships.
I think I've found another one for the lists: "i" = "island" in Old Irish,
Old English, and Hebrew.
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